[Discuss] looking for non-cisco router and firewall

[Chuck Anderson]

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


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 the equipment we're using is no longer maintained and we're in the midst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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