Re: Sonicwall

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:33:09 -0500, Jeff Curtis <jcurtis1027@direcway.com>
wrote:

> Anyone use Sonicwall? If so are you happy with it? Can the gateway
> anti-virus delete an infected e-mail? My employer is looking to
> replace our current E-Soft firewall with a Sonicwall.

I have had a TZ-170 operating here since March 2003 without any major problems.
I have it email the logs to me each day. I then drop the log into Excel and use
that to see what happened over the previous 24 hours. I am seeing between
3,000 and 6,000 entries per month.

SonicWall have anti virus and spyware packages available but I have not used
them so I can't say how good they are. There is also an intrusion prevention
package which I am trying to find out more about.

The TZ-170 currently seems to have a problem reporting ICMP packets with type
and code numbers exceeding 255. Since the ICMP headers have these as 8 bit
numbers I suspect the packets are really UDP packets but haven't, as yet, got to
the bottom of this issue. This may have been fixed in the later software.

They are not cheap to run if you want continued 8x5 support. You can only
download software updates if you have a current annual 8x5 support contract.
This may also apply if you want the anti virus and spyware packages. The price
that I was offered for this equated to about 25% of the original purchase price.
You can make your own mind up whether this is acceptable.

-- 
Cheers . . . JC