[Discuss] looking for non-cisco router and firewall

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:04:26AM -0500, John Boland wrote:
> my colo folks just notified me that the firewall and router we're using is
> subject to another set of exploits.
> the equipment we're using is no longer maintained and we're in the midst of
> changing colo providers.  the new colo provides firewall services. we've
> already setup the rules with them.
> in the meantime, i need something reasonably priced (i.e., cheap) to tide
> us over for the next couple of months.

How much bandwidth do you need to handle? Anything unusual?

If it's less than 300Mb/s, a 1U box with Intel gigabit NICs
running a Linux firewall will do very nicely.

-dsr-