WatchGuard

If I ever have to touch a freakin' WatchGuard again, I'd rather jump off of the building and try to survive. If you deploy a WatchGuard not knowing anything about firewall's, then you deserve what you get because you didn't perform any due diligence. And for crying out loud, if you really want to pay for Linux go ahead, but it's over priced and unreliable, and yes I'm talking from MUCH experience.

I put in about 50 of them in the last 16 months.

We've got them running in everything from large government offices to small multi-site nursing homes to Medical centers with multimedia training labs. I've been using them for more than 5 years and never experienced a single breach or failure of the devices.

Rather than ranting, please tell me about your experience and problem you had. I'm not attached to WG, don't have anything vested in their product line or company, and I install other vendors products, but WG was always easy to setup, easy to train the customers on, completely secure, simple to setup Secure IPSec tunnels to Pix, CheckPoint, Netscreen, Sonic, Linksys, D-Link, and to other WG units.

Many firewalls use a hardened Linux kernel, that should be considered a + by anyone that actually works in this field.

I'm certiainly not going to waste my time debating such a horrible product. What a retarded post anyway. You can have all the freakin' market share that WG enjoys, which isn't much and those that it does, it's the retarded market share that don't care whether or not they just bought a shitty solution.

"Gabriele" wrote in news:3TDXd.1030446 $ snipped-for-privacy@news4.tin.it:

I use a low-end WG FW router. I have had no problems with it and it's the best investment I have made in protecting my network.

Duane :)

Is there a specific reason you ask? Are you looking for comparisons, real-world experience and/or feedback, or suggestions? Is there a specific task you seek to accomplish with a firewall, and you are wondering if a WatchGuard firewall would meet that need?

Like other posters in this thread, I have used WatchGuard firewalls, along with other vendors' products. The WatchGuard firewalls have their strengths as well as their weaknesses (just as any other product does).

I own a Watchguard SOHO6 and it is the best firewall I have owned and have had no problems at all setting it up. You can control outbound ports with it.

You still haven't said what problems you had with a Watchguard. We are waiting to here.

If you are not going to explain the problems that you experienced then you are either a troll, a sales person for competitor, or just an incompetent wanna-be tech that doesn't understand anything.

Put-up or be seen as a liar/troll.

Why? I've had issues which have been traced to my own stupidity but never anything that I could directly attribute to a Watchguard problem.

Well that comment is true of any product and can't be attributed to a problem with Watchgaurd products in particular.

Now that just doesn't make sense. How can a free operating system be over priced? I certainly wouldn't class Linux as unreliable. Its just like any other operating system, properly installed, configured and used it will be stable, badly installed, poorly configured and abused it will fall over.

Loads of them. Soho's & Fireboxes. Single sites, multi sites, home users VPNs, site to site VPNS etc.

Easy to manage, reliable, excellent support (Only needed it twice so not much of a statistical sample).

Oh and the best feature - a nice front panel with flashing lights that you can point management at :-) (Missing on the X series though so makes explaining it to bosses a bit harder)

Troll

"Munpe Q" wrote in news:1110443309.841080.16170 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

What is this about? I don't want to see you whining here. Either present your case or drop it one of the two. I'll let you know now that either way I don't care as I don't have a problem using the product. Your problem is your problem - not mine. ;-)

Duane :)

I've just taken a firebox x700 out of a box, total newbie. I'll let you know how i get on. meanwhile does anyone know how i could test this thing. Im looking at installing it in a few sites.

Thanks

I have them installed in more than 50 locations, Firebox II and III, no X yet.