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SonicWall's new PRO 1260 Enhanced gear combines the brains of its popular TZ-series firewalls with the body of a 25-port managed 10/100M bit/sec switch.
Because the PRO 1260 - released last week - runs an enhanced version of SonicOS software, each port on the firewall can be configured with its own security zone.You can set up an individual firewall for every system in the company's Internet DMZ.This keeps the DMZ from turning into a free-for-all if any one system sitting behind the firewall is cracked because inter-system traffic can be fully controlled.
In our exclusive Clear Choice test, we found the PRO 1260 lives up to its flexibility promise. However, performance issues indicate this firewall might not be the right fit for inter-LAN traffic or Internet connections faster than 3M to 5M bit/sec.
The PRO 1260 offers the features you expect from an all-in-one firewall, including IPSec VPN, firewall-based anti-virus and content filtering, and in-line intrusion-detection and -prevention capabilities. SonicWall also has included e-mail filtering that can block certain types of attachments. Add to these optional features the traditional stateful packet filtering firewall and network address translation (NAT) capabilities, and you have a traditional small and midsize business firewall package.
While other firewall vendors have commonly built small Ethernet switches into their products, SonicWall provides the capability to treat each port as a separate security zone with its own security policy, NAT rules and even bandwidth management allotments. Because there are 27 ports all told...