[geeks] Firewall recommendation?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Nate wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Do you guys have favorite firewalls?  What I need for $dayjob is:  
> reliable, secure, low maintenance, good performance, can failover to  
> a secondary WAN when the primary goes down.
> 
> What I happen to be looking at:
> 
> ZyWALL 35 UTM
> http://us.zyxel.com/products/model.php?indexcate=1126002763
> 
> I'm currently administering an old Watchguard Firebox III 700 for  
> about 200 local machines and three offsite VPN users:
> 
> http://www.watchguard.com/products/firebox700.asp
> 
> Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure what you mean by "low maintenance", but I've found that the 
firewall functionality in recent Cisco IOS is pretty nice.  It's not 
quite at the same level as PIX, but I've found it satisfactory so far.

Peace...  Sridhar