www.snapgear.com

SnapGear is owned by Cyberguard Corporation, an Enterprise firewall mfg. in
Florida. Check out their family of products. SnapGears will allow you to
perform intrusion detection, provide for gateway-to-gateway vpn and is a
stateful firewall. Depending on the model, the price is around $700.00 per
unit. There are a host of other features so I would give them a look.

"Tod DeBie" <tod_debie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ue_Sb.1509$ow4.394@twister.socal.rr.com...
> I am working with a guy that needs some new networking gear. He has three
> sites:
> 1. Main office, 10 computers, server, etc.
> 2. Remote office1, 6 computers, uses VPN to access server in main office
> 3. Remote office2, 2 computers, uses VPN to access server in main office
>
> Right now, all of the sites have cable or DSL modems and basic linksys
> routers and hubs. None of the office people are computer savvy, and they
are
> having some networking problems that cause them to have to reboot the
> routers.
>
> I'd like to put all new gear in, here are a my requirements in order of
> importance:
>
> 1. Rock solid reliability...no reboots required.
> 2. SNMP support, so I can tell if it has a problem.
> 3. VPN client and server in hardware so I can connect all of the sites
> without having to use PC VPN software.
> 4. POP3 email virus filtering, etc.
> 5. 1 or 2 - 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
>
> What else should I be looking for?
>
> Any suggestions on hardware to meet these requirements? I'd like to keep
> the whole thing in the $2,000 range. What are my options in the $2,000
range
> that is close to my requirements and how much will I have to pay if I want
a
> device that does it all?
>
> Tod
>
>