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DMZ firewall appliance suggestions needed

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heatr

IS-IT--Management
May 24, 2006
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This doesn't only pertain to PIX firewalls unfortunately.

I'm looking into buying a DMZ firewall appliance right now to protect a few webservers with public addresses. Most of the cheaper firewalls I have come across have an external port and an internal port which uses private IP's. I need to keep the IP's public on both sides. I prefer to spend under $1,000 on an appliance. Features such as VPN access isn't important for this application.

A cheap solution I came up with was to use a Linux box running IPtables and a reverse proxy as the gateway device, but my boss would rather use a firewall appliance. Wondering any suggestions on a good appliance that covers what I need under $1k?
 
I don't know enough about any others to recommend them but the pix/asa can be run in transparent mode. It acts more or less like a switch but inspects the traffic and drops all packets that don't pass your rules.



Brent
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CCNP, CCSP
 
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