I'm trying to find a good 1U rack firewall at a reasonable price. Most pricing is completely out of space (thousands of dollars? Why?). I don't want to list all features I need/want (there are too many variations but I don't care about most of them) - I'm just looking for something simple and not overly expensive.
I've looked at the WatchGuard XTM 505 which is more reasonably priced -- are there any other firewalls in that range or even less expensive that are good for a small company?
Have you looked at running pfSense on a Supermicro Atom SuperServer. That will run you less than $400. There is a good book on pfSense and commercial support is also available.
You can check the Mikrotik Routerboard RB1100 http://routerboard.com/index.php?showProduct=98
It going to cost you USD399.
Very powerful Mikrotik RouterOS, you can check its features in http://wiki.mikrotik.com
Here is what we just bought:
http://www.prosecure.netgear.com/products/prosecure-utm-series/models.php
Found the UTM5 on buy.com for $233. It is replacing a POS Watchguard.
It is for a small shop with 9 servers. Thus far, extremely happy with it. NAT'ing 5 external IPs and lots of rules. I don't think there is anything like for this price.
I recently purchased a Watchguard XTM 505 because I needed a gigabit firewall/router that could handle about 150 Mbps of traffic to start.
I chose Watchguard I couldn't find anything else that had what I needed for a good price and because have had some good experience with their products in the past.
I was originally happy with the price (~$1300) and happy with the features and web interface but now I'm running into the connection limit (40,000 concurrent connections) Sadly, there don't appear to be any management tools that tell me what it is counting as connections and how the count is affected by NAT.
Now I am kind of stuck. Upgrading to a 520 to get 100,000 connections is a simple software update but the price is *ridiculous* - about $5000.
