Hi all,
I am looking for suggestions for a sub-$600 hardware firewall solution. I'm
primarily a developer but am also responsible for our server (the one-man IT
department). I am not a network-head; at one point I tried to homebrew a
Linux box for this purpose and a week later just had a big headache. I
would thus prefer something easy to manage, that I can forget about unless
there's a problem and then it tells me there's a problem and gives me tools
I can understand to investigate. We need to use multiple-IP NAT (multiple
outside addresses, mapped to a handful of inside computers with some inside
computers using multiple outside addresses), also good server routing tables
so I can send people looking for our websites to the right destinations. I
had been interested in the Chilibox until my boss found some
less-than-stellar reviews of the product. I'm willing to sacrifice
flexibility and even some performance for peace of mind and ease of
management. Any ideas?
-Orion
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