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I can only speak in the most vague terms about the the options you offered.Ĭisco ASA 5505 - I looked last year, and Cisco was expensive.
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Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) * Coming Soon to replace IAG 2007Īlternatives to look at for VPN & Firewall dtuies: Does not do Firewall duties (so that might rule it out right there).Yearly Running costs: SSL Certificate $20 from seems to work ok. If you just want a standard SSL VPN, stick with Standard Edition. (Enterprise edition requires a different hardware appliance worth around £10k, but the option to upgrade is there should you ever require it). Universal allows you to run Standard, Advanced or Enterprise editions. The user licenses (concurrently licensed) Standard License £50 each The hardware: Citrix Access Gateway (Model 2010) Appliance with 1 Year warranty £1800. There is a free version of SmoothWall available at but I cannot speak to the feature differences as we only use the corporate versions. The latest version, Corporate Firewall 2008 does support SSL VPN. Post-install configuration is handled through a web interface that gives you everything you need.
#Firewall cisco asa 5505 install#
That is currently $300 with an $80 annual renewal.Ĭonfiguration is quite easy, install is very straight forward and is a full system install, does not require OS configuration first. With a T1 and multiple servers, you probably will also want the SmoothHost module which allows you to alias multiple IP addresses on your public interface and map which internal addresses should use which public addresses. Licensing, they do not charge per user licensing unless you want to do content filtering with the Guardian module.Ĭorporate Firewall runs about $500 currently with a $150 annual support renewal (for version upgrades and patching).ġ0 VPN license pack (no 5 pack) about $400 with $100 annual support renewal. Please note the following prices in this answer are current prices, anyone reading this answer in the future should check with a reseller for current pricing. We've had good luck with Dell Vostro equipment for small firewalls and Dell PowerEdge equipment for when hardware redundancy is desired.
#Firewall cisco asa 5505 driver#
I don't have experience with the firewalls you listed, but I can tell you that SmoothWall ( covers the features you are asking about.įor hardware, they do sell pre-built appliances or you can use any PC hardware of your choice as long as the hardware has known linux driver support.