Re: What firewall for small medical research lab

Hi,

Fact is, i didn't consider patient confidentiality in my earlier response.
For insurance and liability purposes, you will be much better served if
you go with a commercial grade product, or at least have a consultant
firm (Note: Firm, not Joe from across the appartment building) config
the software for you. 

I don't really hold much stock in appliances being cheaper to maintain
than PC based equipment. My Nokia cluster has had nodes fall over 
before, and i pay Nokia and Checkpoint thousands of pounds a year to
maintain my equipment.

My Smoothwall at home, and the Gentoo based system i put in for a 
friend have both got uptimes of several years, and have never been
compromised or gone down. 

At the end of the day, the "Quality" of a firewall has to be balanced with
such beautiful things as "Accountability, Liability, and Risk". Only when
you understand what could go wrong can you decide how much you
need to spend.

I don't know the exact layout of your network, but i'm going to change
my hat, and agree with my colleagues earlier in the thread. Netscreen,
Juniper, whoever.

Regards,

Max Ashton