SonicWall

[groovin]

I have a SonicWall Tele2 sitting around. I've never dealt with them but I'm reading that they can support up to 5 users.

I know companies routinely get a router or firewall and exceed their recommended capacities, but I was wondering if any of you knew how much we can push these things... as in can I have say 50 users on a SonicWall with a recommended capacity of 5 (no web server on the network, normal office traffic)? I know performance will degrade, but at what point should I just get a new firewall?

thanks for the input

 

[cmetz]

Many firewall/VPN devices have mapping lock-downs, that is, if they see more than x number of IP addresses on the inside, they'll ignore new ones. SonicWall might do this. I do believe you can buy upgrade license keys for the SonicWall boxes though.

 

[Goosemaster]

I agree. I have a webramp, a well-known variant, and if set to 5-ips it will reject other DHCP requests etc.


Client licenses are definitely available in increments, and I believe that one also offers Virus protection, Filter lists and VPN capability.
I do believe the number of concurrent VPNs connections requires another license.

 

[mboy]

Yes, u must upgrde the sonicwall. I believe there was a crack going around for the webramp/sonicwall to unloc the multi user/vpn, but I never tried it. I bought an upgrade chip off of ebay for it that unlcocked everything.

 

[groovin]

how about the performance after you upgrade the clients ?

 

[mboy]

No performance increase or decrease, it will just allow more users and allow VPN endpoint.

 

[groovin]

so these things map by internal IPs? so if i have more than 5 private IPs connecting to it, itll probaly just ignore the rest. thats fine because this will only act as a firewall for a single public server, NATing and forwarding traffic on certain ports to it.