[142557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewall Appliance Suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Nowak)
Tue Jul 5 00:52:26 2011
From: Peter Nowak <pnowak@batblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <CC75EEBF17C7374EA8309102B7B10C840C88A1@SHSBS.shenrons-house.local>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:50:45 -0400
To: Blake T. Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me>
Cc: "NANOG \(nanog@nanog.org\)" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
They don't have a VM yet - coming soon - but you may take a look at Palo =
Alto Networks. Having just a regular stateful firewall is not a good =
idea anymore...
Peter Nowak
On Jul 1, 2011, at 12:35 AM, Blake T. Pfankuch wrote:
> Normally I would agree with you as far as separate instances, however =
this will be in a situation where we pay ridiculous amounts for cpu and =
memory, so a single instance is what we are shooting for (remember those =
ridiculous requirements). I am planning to do some further testing with =
vyatta and pfsense. Thanks you all for the on list and off list =
responses!
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> From: Sargun Dhillon [mailto:sargun@sargun.me]=20
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:56 PM
> To: George Bonser
> Cc: Blake T. Pfankuch; NANOG (nanog@nanog.org)
> Subject: Re: Firewall Appliance Suggestions
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
>> To: "Blake T. Pfankuch" <blake@pfankuch.me>, "NANOG =
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>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:30:53 AM
>> Subject: RE: Firewall Appliance Suggestions
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>>> Willing to pay for something if need be, but looking for something=20=
>>> that can easily handly 50-100mbit of throughput.
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>>> Any Ideas?
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>>> Thanks!
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>>> Blake Pfankuch
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>> I might also look at Vyatta. They have appliances or you can run the=20=
>> software on your own hardware.
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> I would not go with Vyatta if you're doing anything complex. The =
number of random bugs I've hit with their software are numerous. In the =
right hands, it's a powerful tool. And it seems to fit your solution =
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> If I were in your shoes, I would install two instances that would =
handle the "edge" of the cluster, and then an instance per customer =
(lightweight, they sell a VMWare image). Then use dynamic routing to =
direct traffic to the customer (assign each customer their own ASN, and =
peer with their instance). So, worse case scenario, the NOC monkey only =
breaks one customer's gear.=20
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> Sargun Dhillon
> VoIP (US): +1-925-235-1105
Peter Nowak
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