RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] firewall appliance

["Brent Deterding" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't think so - not unless you're wrapping some value around it. Anyone
can go buy a Linksys/DLink/Cisco 501 and call it a day - but not everyone
can, say, manage said devices. For that there is a company I know of in St.
Louis that I would trust to manage a small firewall - a good little
proprietary appliance - although the cost is the cost of buying one per
month (worth it IMHO if you don't know what you're doing).

Having some experience in the market - it's a tight market. Then there are
the companies like Smoothwall that make it hard . . .

-- Brent

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OK I asked for it ;). What I really meant was "how much are you willing to
pay for one?". I am basically wondering what the market for those things
is and think I can produce a decent linux based firewall from new
components and sell it for $250 or perhaps lower. My question should have
been "based on your experience, would there be a market for these as the
price above?".

Cheers,
Ognen

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, John Engelbrecht wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:25:39 -0500 (CDT)
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> http://www.tigerdirect.com
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> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > just curious, how much does a 5-port hardware firewall appliance usually
> > cost? I don't mean an old pentium with a software firewall but one of
> > them small hardware appliance boxes...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ognen
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