[Discuss] looking for non-cisco router and firewall

[jj.boland at gmail.com (John Boland)]

sorry about that.

we need 100meg on the front and gigabit on the backend.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> You didn't answer how much capactiy you need.
>
> Juniper SRX?
>
>
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/release-independent/junos/topics/concept/services-gateway-srx240-hardware-features.html
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=srx240h2
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:37:28PM -0500, John Boland wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > Management would be more comfortable with a commercial solution.
> > We tossed around the idea of building our own with pfsense or m0n0wall.
> > However, the learning curve would delay implmentation.
> >
> > If we can't find something local and fairly soon, we might be forced to
> > build.
> > On Feb 12, 2016 12:05 PM, "Dan Ritter" <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 the equipment we're using is no longer maintained and we're in the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-
> > >
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