which router/ firewall? zyxel10, 3COM office connect25, CIsco PIX 501?

[mcveigh]

zyxel10

3COM office connect 25

cisco PIX 501
It's for an office with about a dozen connections (pc's and printers) I'm leaning to the zyxel, but are there any others I'm missing?
I just want a firewall and dhcp server connected to a cable connection.


Thanks!

Seth

 

[mcveigh]

bump
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come on someone has to have used these before? any opinions?

 

[me19562]

what exactly u want of the firewall? and how much money ur gonna spend?

 

[mcveigh]

under a grand, preferably under 500.
I want nat translating and dhcp server, and some kind of firewall beyongs NAT. I'd prefer stateful inpsectino and full logging

the zyxel seems to offer the most features at a reasonable price

 

[me19562]

The zyxel looks good and the cisco too, personaly i hate 3com and pefer cisco but u can check too netgear watchguard and sonicwall, they have a few routers/firewalls
that have what u r looking for like theseNetgear FV318, Sonicwall SOHO3
and Watchguard Firebox SOHO|tc. The sonicwall and watchguard r more cheaper than netgear.


Good Luck

 

[mcveigh]

bumpola

 

[me19562]

I prefer the sonicwall

 

[lowtech1]

It depends on what you are going to do with them.

If you ever want to use VPN then the over price Cisco is out of the question. Cisco uses an older technology and/or proprietor therefore PPTP over IPSEC is out of the question due to the use of an aged ipsec kernel (version 1.5) instead of the newer 1.7 or 1.9 kernel.

Don?t bother paid for an over price firewall with all the unnecessary tools that you don?t need. Get the hardware that your budget allow for, ease of use, and look for a 5~7 years upgrade path.

I have opened a few old PIX firewalls that was over $10000.00 in their days that having nothing more than a cheap Pentium cpu, 16~32 megs of ram, DiskOnChip, NICs, and power supply. I have built many firewalls that is better than Cisco out of 486s & some with low power C6 cpus & DiskOnChip that cost at a faction of the Cisco counter part. At most they would cost with the all bells and whistles is under $300.00.

Eat that Cisco

 

[SharkB8]

The Zywall 1 ships on December 15. It has all the features of the Zywall 10 but with a 4 port switch that additional multi-port switches could be plugged into and DHCP would issue IP's to. That would give you enough to take care of your SOHO environment.
When it finally becomes available I plan to upgrade from my RT314 to the Zywall 1 on my home network. This is overkill but I have always been an over kill type of guy.