Hello to all and to all a good holiday
I been looking for a better firewall. Currently in use is a smc barricade wired and a d-link 624 wireless. I do not think these do deep state{layer ?} inspection. I been looking at Cisco 500 series or Sonic wall 150 or 170. anyone who has one I would love to hear what you think of it. far as that goes am I overlooking any better ones? I like to be under eight or nine hundreds dollars{USA}price, not msrp. hardware based but better than what I have. Also sonic wall confused me talking about number of nodes allowed. Do they mean machines total or active. That is when there say ten nodes do they mean ten active machines out the gateway or ten machines period. I never before had to consider this as any machines behind the firewall would go. Seems like every time I google I either get very expensive ones five to thidty thousand dollars or software ones. What I want is a better hardware firewall than I presently have if there is an advantage. Oh I do have firewall protection on the boxes, 3 fedore core 4, 6 windows mostly 2000 or xp.