I think you don't agree just because you're with WatchGuard T-Shirt :D
WG appliances (at least the generation we're talking about) is lower than other
vendor simmilar appliances (speaking about performance). That causes the
migration of couple of clients from this platform to any other which could
handle the throughput rightly.
It was a radio station, so the ports opened were not large but maybe the number
of connections were large (I really don't think so, but we can let it in doubt).
On small clients never had problems, is stable; anyways, I don't want a WG for
my company if that answers the first question :D
Naren <naren@pactech.net> escribió:
Hi all,
my $ 0.02
I dont agree with the 'hang' thing.
I have supported WG products for more than 6 years, and the only reason a
firewall can hang (if at all) is for somebody opening a large number of ports -
or .. a DOS (like a worm ... ), or too much of connections (as one of my
customer faced - he had more than 400 pop3 accesses into his low end box meant
for average of 100 users)
Even when the box faces a DOS, the problem happened only rarely in older
versions. The newer OS releases are very very stable.
I like WG because of the security, in the GUI (168 bit) and the detailed
logging, reporting, and realtime monitoring, things which really help when you
want to isolate a problem and walk out of the customer site. The reporting
which comes free is excellent for management information. (MIS - is management
information .. whats the point of having a firewall that cant give decent
reports for information ... ) And building VPN connections are the most
simplest thing you could ever do .. I could go on and on .. and forgive me - I
do support or have supported other products.
And the average time I spent for training a customer where they were migrating
from CP FW 1 or Netscreen - was less than 2 to 3 hours.
My company is a reseller for WG and above maybe a biased comment, but the truth
is - for SME market - it is an excellent product.
When it comes to large enterprises it is a different ball game, since there are
other concerns like level of certification and x y z.
The comments are my own, with more than 60 Watchguard firewalls of different
sizes under my care, or under my partner company's care.
Naren
(as I said - the above is my personal opinion .. )
T. Naren - Dip M, CCDA,
Certified Engineer - Watchguard and Borderware
Certified Sales Expert - Watchguard
Technical Manager - Pactech (http://www.pactech.net)
Blk 211, Henderson Road, Singapore 159552,
Tel: +65-62711123, Fax: +65-62703919
Emaill: naren@pactech.net Mobile: +65-90044249
# For thought
Briefing - spending a long time saying nothing.
De-briefing - spending a long time saying nothing after you have done it
----- Original Message -----
From: CJ (Joseph A.) Ondeck
To: aolverar@bancoazteca.com.mx
Cc: firewalls@securityfocus.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Watchguard!
The only Watchguard FW I have installed is a SOHO 6 and it hangs once in a
while. Decent product yet I like the Checkpoint/Nokia combo better.
Netscreen/Juniper is good also.
Regards,
CJ
At 2005-06-07 14:06, aolverar@bancoazteca.com.mx wrote:
Hi everyone!
I just would like to know if anyone of you have had great experiences
with watchguard appliances, I've done some projects (VPN, Firewall routing
for instance) with them and I'm not convinced at all, opinions about it?
Andres Olvera R. , CCNA
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