In message <013701bf6d72$f8785c00$e80a78c1at_private>you write: >Can anybody body give me any information regarding the SonicWall range = >of firewalls. I am particularly looking at the pros and cons. Well, the pros are it's pretty inexpensive. The cons list is a tad bit longer. We've spent the last two months with a SonicWall PRO sitting between us and the Internet (after an ill-advised, and ill-received upgrade). Con #1: Any rule change necessitates a reboot of the device, dropping all active connections to the Internet. Con #2: The configuration file isn't in a user-edititable form. You _must_ configure this thing through the web interface. Though you can then backup the configuration file, it's in an encrypted format. Con #3: No secure configuration interface. Not even an SSL-capable webserver. Con #4: Extreme flakiness. 1:1 NAT often _just stops working_. The packet enters the box, but then never leaves. To get it to work again we have to ping the inside box _from the sonicwall_. That fixes it for about 20 minutes. Con #5: Poor logging. What happened to the packet in #4? Who knows; nothing shows up in the logs. Con #6: Poor support. Email only. A heck of a lot of good that does you when you're firewall is busted. There's others, but I'd like to give Sonic the chance to address them before posting them to a public forum. -James
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