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Dan,

You should take netscreen into consideration (www.netscreen.com). A cheap
hardware based firewall that does VPN and NAT and some other interesting
stuff. They come out pretty good in recent tests, specially what speed is
concerned...

HTH,
Bart

"dan" <dan@cordblood.com> wrote in message
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> I am looking for a hardware based firewall for my companies
> co-location.  We have around 10 servers all running websites,
> databases, or email.  We need a firewall that will allow us to vpn
> from the office and edit the servers as if they were part of our local
> network.  Also, we would like to have all the servers on internal IPs
> and have the firewall route certain WAN IPs to the correct local
> machine.
>
> I have been looking at the Watchguard PRO and SOHO, the SonicWall
> SOHO2/50user and XPRS2, and the NOKIA IP110 and IP330.  All seem to do
> the trick, the main requirements are the one VPN connection and the
> ability to route or NAT serveral IPs to certain local boxes.  The
> firewall can not cost more than 5g but lower cost will make the sale
> much easier.  I am worried that the SOHO appliances will not be able
> to handle the bandwidth, number of users, or not be configurable
> enough to allow for these routes.
>
> any help you could give would be great
>
> thanks
> dan