Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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@Dashrender watchguard is very fail
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@PenguinWrangler said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:
@Tim_G Give me a Sonicwall device and I will take it to my gun range for target practice. That's all they are good for. ESPECIALLY after Dell bought them. Sonicwall is awful. Nothing but issues.
Last year we change our SonicWall for Pfsense.
Very happy with the change.I don't think Sonicwall is a bad product, main reason for the change was the expensive annual support for SonicWall, about 800€/Year
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@iroal said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:
I don't think Sonicwall is a bad product, main reason for the change was the expensive annual support for SonicWall, about 800€/Year
I think cost is part of if something is a good product. And that's WAY too much for that one.
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@iroal said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:
@PenguinWrangler said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:
@Tim_G Give me a Sonicwall device and I will take it to my gun range for target practice. That's all they are good for. ESPECIALLY after Dell bought them. Sonicwall is awful. Nothing but issues.
Last year we change our SonicWall for Pfsense.
Very happy with the change.I don't think Sonicwall is a bad product, main reason for the change was the expensive annual support for SonicWall, about 800€/Year
SonicWALL issues I remember..
It manipulated VoIP traffic regardless off what you turned off
Had terrible NAT Coning issues, bug reports were rejected
The command line interface was ass backwards
I think the only time I see a customer have it was when their IT preferred it. I believe your MSP/IT guys preferred for the same reason as SW. They give you software to manage all your customers in one place.
Single Pane of Glass trumps actual features and reliability pretty often. If I ever had a business that needed IT I am not sure I would trust your average MSP.
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@bigbear said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:
I think the only time I see a customer have it was when their IT preferred it. I believe your MSP/IT guys preferred for the same reason as SW. They give you software to manage all your customers in one place.
No one likes it except resellers who make money pushing it.
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Just wanted to add @bj to this thread that I think a $100-ish Cloud Router from Mikrotik would blow most hardware away, including Ubiquiti, on pure performance. With the $50 and under models you are still getting 1 million PPS. The new cloud router series really has a crazy amount of power.
This still coming from a pure PPS (packets per second) point of view.
I think the cheapest cloud router has 12 to 16 coresThat would only count for the core routers I am more familiar with (12 to 24 now) in the $500 range.Very poor marketing in the states but very popular with western country WISPS.
