Firewalls
Anyone running a Sonicwall NSA 3600 or Fortinet 100D? Looking for reviews on these guys, im familiar with both firewall OS's, I prefer fortinet for some things and sonic the other. I have seen fortinets new UI and dont like it probably cause Im so used to the old one but its kind of a turn off for me. I see a lot of bad reviews for sonic online but have never had problem with them in 8 plus years.
Any of you guys running either of the FW's and like/dislike?
Any of you guys running either of the FW's and like/dislike?
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Very good Louis, short but pointless.
OP, do you have specific requirements or features you need? Are you looking for a full-featured UTM appliance?
From what I've read, the reviews are all over the place. However, I'm seeing a common mention of terrible Sonicwall support. With all other things being near equal, costs/recurring costs and support are a big deciding factor for me.
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We are copy pasting from Cisco’s website, that’s the game right? These little things is what keeps me coming back here
I am currently totally all in with Fortinet. I prefer their interface and features. For example, there are no additional licenses for VPN's with Fortinet. You are only limited by the hardware resources of the box. Every box can do HA with no additional license. Fortinet has made items like this super easy from a licensing and feature set perspective. Fortinet support is leaps and bounds above Sonicwall's support. In addition to that Fortinet has a CLI which is pretty nice. Sonicwall doesn't have a true CLI.
I've also found Fortinet to be better as far as providing better reporting tools out of the box. You get Forticloud where you get basic information with no additional fees or licenses. You can drill down into details from your sources on the network better than Sonicwall.
Again, I don't really have a total negative view on Sonicwall but after using Fortinet for about a year now, i much prefer them.