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What is the Best Firewall for an ISP?

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sainfoman December 18, 2005, 8:21am 1

Can someone tell me what is the best Fire wall for an ISP?

Will it be the Sonicwall Products? We have tried it and do not seem to work well and cost a arm and a leg

Do any body know the Astaro Fire wall? Hear it is very good and stabile with Spam assistance

Or the AstroFlowGuard

Please help we are desperate and spend a lot of money on the Sonicwall but have to restart the dam thing every once a day.

Thanks

Anti-Trend December 18, 2005, 9:54am 2

What is the Best Fire Wall for and ISP?

I used to work with Sonicwall products also, and I wasn’t pleased with them either. I think you would do well to look into IPCop and its various plugins, especially ‘BlockOutTraffic’ and ‘Net-Traffic’. IPCop is a fork from the Smoothwall project, which runs on Linux and is 100% free and open-source. There’s also m0n0wall, a BSD-based firewall distro which is also excellent and extremely reliable. With either choice, you have SMP-capable, free, open-source software which is both community and commercially supported and has an excellent security track record when configured properly.

For reference, I even run IPCop on my home firewall which consists of a K6-2 ~300MHz, 128mb PC-100, and a few $5 RealTek NICs. With only my measly AT-architecture PC as an IPCop firewall, I am able to handle up to 12mb sustained throughput with packet filtering, QoS, IDS, NTP, multiple VPNs, DNS proxy, DMZ, and more enabled simultaneously… just imagine what a couple of Xeons could do.

-AT

sabashuali December 18, 2005, 11:24am 3

What is the Best Fire Wall for and ISP?

Sorry if I am asking a really stupid question but, are you running windows?

Anti-Trend December 18, 2005, 11:25am 4

What is the Best Fire Wall for and ISP?

[QUOTE=sabashuali]
Sorry if I am asking a really stupid question but, are you running windows?
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That point is moot, a Sonicwall is a hardware firewall. He is talking about a firewall for an ISP. What I was suggesting was that since they were unhappy with their Sonicwall, and since they seemed interested in a firewall product which would run on commodity hardware, they should look into running either IPCop or m0n0wall to keep both their admins and their customers happy and save a lot of money too.

sabashuali December 18, 2005, 11:35am 5

What is the Best Fire Wall for and ISP?

cool! Thanks for this day’s lesson.

What’s moot?

Anti-Trend December 18, 2005, 11:48am 6

What is the Best Fire Wall for and ISP?

[ot]
[QUOTE=sabashuali]
What’s moot?
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Moot - adj.

Law. Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
Of no practical importance; irrelevant.[/ot]

sainfoman December 27, 2005, 10:51am 7

We installed the Astro Fire Wall, costly but worth every cent.
This firewall ROCKS :karate:
Read more at http://www.astaro.com

Anti-Trend December 27, 2005, 4:22pm 8

Glad to hear it worked out for you!

To anybody following this thread, Astaro is a Linux-based proprietary security gateway product. For smaller shops or others who do not find commercial support attractive, there is a free version in compliance with the GPL.

system December 27, 2005, 5:26pm 9

I personally use Zone Alamrm, any feedback?

Anti-Trend December 27, 2005, 5:36pm 10

[QUOTE=ItalianStallion]
I personally use Zone Alamrm, any feedback?
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You’re way off topic, we’re talking about heavy-duty firewalls suitable for use in an ISP, not a software firewall which runs on your home Windows machine.