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Hardware Firewall
Definition: A device that allows you to restrict or open access for traffic to your server, by rate limiting traffic, and blocking traffic to and from certain ports. With a hardware firewall you can create access groups to allow specific IPs access to management ports while blocking unauthorized users.
Benefits: Gives you the ability to prevent unwanted or malicious traffic to your server. Checkpoint X16 limited to 16 IP's
Definition: A device that allows you to restrict or open access for traffic to your server, by rate limiting traffic, and blocking traffic to and from certain ports. With a hardware firewall you can create access groups to allow specific IPs access to management ports while blocking unauthorized users.
Benefits: Gives you the ability to prevent unwanted or malicious traffic to your server. Checkpoint X16 limited to 16 IP's
Currently using RHEL with APF and manually do my management. Can someone assist me in making the decision if this is will be worth it for me? How good is this product and do others out there recommend it?
i.e. doing a search for CheckPoint in these forums (ThePlanet's add on hardware firewall)...I see two posts on it and only see in the order form what I pasted above. What would make me want to spend the extra money for it? If it's so great why isn't there $89-$189 per month of hubbub about it? Does it have built in smart code to handle DoS and other real-time problems? It might be worth every penny, but I don't know based on what I can find on the web site or in the forums.