A Dedicated Firewall for a Small Town?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday December 20, 2005 @07:53AM from the any-better-ideas dept.

Germ-X asks: "My city's IT Manager is proposing a dedicated firewall system to protect the IT infrastructure. The solution, that is going to be presented to the City Council, is based on Windows 2003 and Symantec Enterprise firewall. It will be running on an HP DL380 G4, and will cost the city about $13,000. Most of that amount will be going to software licenses. I don't know the features of Symantec Enterprise Firewall, I just think that the city could do much better going for an applicance kind of solution, even if they stay with Windows. What do you guys think? Any other ideas? Keep in mind that this is a small town and I don't think we can count on any big time sysadmins, like most of yourselves, being on staff."

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Re:Bunch of morons by WhatAmIDoingHere · 2005-12-20 08:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Hold on, hold on, hold on.. Free AND costs nothing, you say? Sign me up! But first.. how much do I have to pay for it?

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Re:What city? by MarkGriz · 2005-12-20 10:12 · Score: 5, Funny

"Hey, I presume that you guys use no firewall now. And you have Windows servers on the netowork! What kind of city is that?"

Troy?

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