Recently at $WORK, we had to come up with budget proposals for next year. We knew that we were going to outgrow our current Checkpoint UTM appliances by holiday next year, so we had to buy new hardware. We just had to decide which hardware. While I'm capable of building a Linux/*BSD firewall on my own, I frankly don't have the time to mess around with updates and compliance documentation. We need an appliance, and for our needs, Cisco and CheckPoint are about the
Trying to combine IPSEC, dynamic NAT, & static NAT on a Cisco router? Check out Cisco's article on how to do it first. If that doesn't work and you're ready to drop kick the router out of the datacenter like I was, put away your black belt for a few minutes, and read about how I worked around a couple of bugs.
Recently at $WORK, we had to come up with budget proposals for next year. We knew that we were going to outgrow our current Checkpoint UTM appliances by holiday next year, so we had to buy new hardware. We just had to decide which hardware. While I'm capable of building a Linux/*BSD firewall on my own, I frankly don't have the time to mess around with updates and compliance documentation. We need an appliance, and for our needs, Cisco and CheckPoint are about the 