RE: firewall suggestion

Depending on how much flexibility you demand from the firewall a good choice
is a PIX 515. Also a suggestion is to collate your FTP and webserve into
one, preferably a linux box - with the box you gain from the migration you
could build another linux box and stick squid and snort on that.

 

Another thing is to take into consideration what switch you are using, a
Catalyst 2950 would be a good buy for you internal lan.

 

Regards, 

 

 

Tom Farrar
Data Centre Engineer
tom.farrar@it-ps.com

IT Professional Services

 

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From: Kevin Russell [mailto:kevin@retail-tech.com] 
Sent: 15 February 2005 14:36
To: firewalls@securityfocus.com
Subject: firewall suggestion

 

hi list

 

this is my first posting, 

I am in the position to take over as network admin, mostly just for  the
security of the machines/network... any ways we have an older firewall
appliance 
its a hotbrick, then a router and a switch 24 port,  for the network mostly
just a windows machines, a 2k3 server std, for the domain controller, and
two DMZ machines

1 is a web server and the other is a Linux ftp server, and we were thinking
of putting another 2k pro box up in the DMZ as a second  web server, Im
trying to get them to let me put an IDS sys into the mix, but to no avail, I
need a some ideas on what you think would be the better setup for this
network, ( its a small only about 15 clients in the office)

 

thx alot for the help

 

I know its a noob question....

thx