Re: SonicWall Pro 360 questions

In article <1121549280.358033.154460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
law_40@hotmail.com says...
> Greetings,
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> I have been doing some research and came across the sonic wall pro 3060
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> gateway. I'm interested in building a network where I will provide
> wireless internet support for apartment complexes in a college town.
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> the sonic wall pro 3060 seems like a very good choice for a gateway
> (given it virus scanning and user manangment abilities). when looking
> at other gateways/routers, i don't see as many of the virus and spyware
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> capibilites.
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> can someone comment on a "bare bones" solution that can be use in an
> apartment complex.
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> important features would be
> 1) user access control
> 2) bandwidth control
> 3) web based control
> 3( protection from virus etc...
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> also, i'm having a hard time understanding the difference between the
> virus and "stateful packet inspection" products that i'm seeing. what
> are the pro's and con's of the two technologies?
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> Reply
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My understanding of Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) is:
1. SPI moniters outgoing packets and remembers.
2. SPI moniters incoming packets and if the incoming packets
   were not initiated by your own outgoing packets, the
   incoming packets are Blocked.
In other words, a computer out on internet can initiate an
attempted connection to your maching but your SPI blocks it.
Casey
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:58:51 2005