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ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 15 2005 04:58PM Marcos Marrero (mmarrero LLOYDSTSB-USA com) (1 replies) Re: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 15 2005 09:28PM James Eaton-Lee (james mailing gmail com) (2 replies) Re: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 16 2005 01:51AM Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa pacbell net) (3 replies) Re: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 16 2005 05:37PM Abe Getchell (mailing list spooler gmail com) (1 replies) Re: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 16 2005 05:50PM Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa pacbell net) (1 replies) Re: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 16 2005 06:22PM Abe Getchell (mailing list spooler gmail com) RE: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Nov 15 2005 11:35PM Nick Wells (nick clandestineresearch com) (1 replies) |
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> was released as a public beta. I've run other firewall "appliances" as well
> as both m0n0wall and pfSense (pfSense is a variant of m0n0wall optimized for
> use on standard PC hardware) and I've really found it to have the best
> featureset. I also read an article on Network Computing or Windows Magazine
> that put ISA2004 as one of the fastest firewalls, almost achieving "full"
> 1000Base-TX speeds.
Do you have a link to an online version of this article? I'd like to see
their testing criteria. It's not that I don't believe you... well, yeah,
it is that I don't believe you. You're just some guy on the Internet,
after all.
> I think ISA's real redemption comes from the hardware that it runs on,
> standard (sometimes cheap) PC components. If you get a power surge on an
> Ethernet card (because only in the engineer's dreamworld does the Ethernet
> cable get it's on surge arrestor) and blow the card, there's a $20
> replacement at the local computer store. On the other hand, you have the
> sleek, integrated units that you have to throw away or RMA if something gets
> zapped, and you won't be able to troubleshoot it to the same degree you'd be
> able to troubleshoot an ISA server.
Personally, I see this as a negative. That cheap $20 Ethernet card you
mention being easy to replace is also more likely to go down do to a
failure than something built with enterprise class components... not
just with whatever parts came off the boat from <insert Southeast Asian
country here> last week. The fact that ISA can run on commodity hardware
means that it is more prone to a hardware failure, and that isn't
acceptable in a high-availability environment... and who's business
isn't these days?
Abe
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http://abegetchell.com/
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