I would suggest viewing the technical specifications/data sheets of all
the devices you are considering purchasing. The SonicWALL you mention
allows a total of 6000 connections
(http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/DS_TZ_Series_US_Final.pdf) and the
CheckPoint allows 8000 connections.
(http://www.checkpoint.com/products/safe@office/safe@office_moreinfo.html)
Home and SMB firewalls are going to have these limitations. A
recommendation would be to stand up a dedicated scanner outside of your
firewall and scan from there. Or build your own linux firewall.
I would read http://paladion.net/pdf/nmap_performance.pdf to help you
optimize your scans (about nmap but concepts can be applied to nessus)
and then decide what your best choice would be.
-Nathan
Andres Lewis wrote:
Hi All - does anyone recommend a particular brand or model of broadband
gateway/firewall to run
scans behind? I can't get scans done in a timely fashion without my devices
failing unless I do
VERY slow scans.
I'm looking at SonicWall (TZ 180 TotalSecure) and CheckPoint (Safe@Office
500) but was hoping
there's something cheaper. Also haven't done testing on either so if anyone
has please advise...
TIA,
Andy
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