ISA vs. appliance firewalls

[fgaston]

Has anyone recently dumped a higher end firewall for ISA? What are the pros/cons? Lastly, is there any concern about vulnerability to hackers with underlying W2K platform? Thanks in advance.

 

[Sithl0rd]

I use ISA as my primary firewall. But ive help setup a higher end firewall on another network. The way to stop conflicts between to two firewalls is to Allow All traffic through ISA firewall and allow the higher end firewall to do protection

 

[Guest_imported]

We dumped our Raptor firewalls and replaced them with ISA. The planning started when Code Red hit and our Raptor firewalls took a performance hit. When we had just completed our testing when Nimda hit. Again the Raptors took a hit and we were left with degraded performance. We migrated to ISA and the firewalls did not skip a beat. We have been impressed with the performance and management of the ISA firewalls.