ISA vs. Harware Firewall (Netscreen)

[keven]

Should I use the ISA Firewall in addition to my Netscreen Firewall? I'm very happy with the Netscreen performance however, I'm not quite sure if they are able to co-exist on my network or, should i keep using my Netscreen? Or switch over to Win 2K Server's ISA?

Please help me out.

Keven

 

[globalstrata]

There should be able to coexist fine. Depending on release of Netscreen hardware that you have, ISA will help youdo cashing in order to speed up web site access. Another thing is that you could do VPNs through the ISA reallying only on the Active Directory account instead of users having to remember different account names and passwords.

Microsoft have some articles talking about how to integrate third party firewalls with ISA. Some of that info can be found under:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/isa/isastart_6d9h.asp

Gladys Rodriguez
GlobalStrata Solutions

http://www.globalstrata.com