BTW Zyxel makes very nice high-end stuff as well...
If you don't like stuff from Taiwan however, why don't u try the Juniper? Classy stuff, not too expensive and easy to setup.
Greetz
Stephan Muis
-----Original Message-----
From: macos-x-server-bounces+stephanm=email@hidden [mailto:macos-x-server-bounces+stephanm=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Ed Pastore
Sent: maandag 5 juni 2006 22:50
To: Charles Yeomans
Cc: Mac OS X Server
Subject: Re: contemplating SonicWall purchase
On Jun 5, 2006, at 3:56 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
> I'm just about to buy a SonicWall TZ 170 to replace my, uh,
> PowerMac 8100 running Vicom Internet Gateway. I'll be using it for
> NAT and firewall. Thanks to previous flaming on the topic, I was
> moved to read the SonicWall docs first. As far as I can tell, I
> should be able to do initial setup using a Mac; is this in fact the
> case? And will it be possible to do firmware updates without a
> PC? This isn't so important, as I have friends with PCs.
>
> Or if anyone has suggestions for a box other than a SonicWall, I'd
> be interested.
I have a $1500 SonicWall sitting on a rack, powered off. On top of it
is a $500 ZyXel that is allegedly less capable than the SonicWall.
The SW works just fine... I just can't stand it. The ZyXel also works
just fine and is several kajillion times easier to configure.
On the SW, every time I would upgrade the firmware, some feature
would stop working. There hasn't been any compelling reason to update
the firmware on the ZyXel other than good practice; and updates have
caused no problems.
On the SW, I can't understand most of manual. It's not that it's over
my head so much as it is written very poorly (the typical how-to
instead of why-then-how manual). The ZyXel manual, despite clearly
originating in another language, is much, much easier to derive
understanding from.
Unless you're doing very high-end stuff, any firewall you choose will
do pretty much a good job. But the SonicWall is just too much trouble
to make it worth dealing with.
P.S. Yes, dhan, I know you have good experiences with SonicWalls, but
if one's current firewall is VIG, then ZyXel is going to provide a
much better migration experience than SonicWall.
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