| Fortinet FortiGate 500A - Security appliance - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN |
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Model: 500A
Brand: Fortinet
Manufacturer: Fortinet
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Total Reviews: 1
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
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| Description: |
| The FortiGate-500A Antivirus Firewall provides performance, flexibility, and security necessary to protect today's growing enterprise networks. The FortiGate-500A platform features two 10/100/1000 tri-speed Ethernet ports provide flexibility for networks running at or upgrading to gigabit speeds, 4 user-definable 10/100 ports for redundant WAN links, high availability, and multi-zone capabilities that allow administrators a high degree of flexibility to segment their network into zones for granular control of network traffic, and an internal 4-port switch for direct connectivity with the FortiGate-500A. The FortiGate-500A Antivirus Firewalls can be deployed as a high performance antivirus and content filtering gateway, or as a complete network protection solution leveraging firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, and VPN capabilities. Ideally suited for enterprise networks, the FortiGate-500A is unmatched in capabilities, speed, and price/performance. The FortiGate-500A is kept up to date automatically by Fortinet's FortiProtect Network, which provides continuous updates that ensure protection against the latest viruses, worms, Trojans, and other threats - around the clock, and around the world. |
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This thing is too Fisher Price for me., June 26, 2008
By user (Edgewood, MD)
This is FortiNet's version of an all-in-one securtiy appliance, and while I am bias being a CCSP, and Cisco advocate this thing has so many issues that I can't stand it is tough to list them all.
1. There is not much documentation out there, Fortinet is your only source, not many people using these things. Those that are are usually people who know nothing about security and want a point and click appliance that can do a million more things than they'll ever need.
2. The command line is a pain. I mean even to do a simple ping you have to type "exec ping 4.2.2.2" WHY?!? Whta is wrong with plain old PING?
3. I was adding this as a replacment to our Nokia Checkpoints, neither of which would have been my choice, but after adding all of the networks and node addresses, and assign then to a specific interface I decided to create groups. I began adding the nodes and networks to the groups and a lot of them give an error that addrss is incorrect or missing (very informative) Finally I realized that I had one node assigned to internal inteface and another assigned to DMZ, and it wouldn't allow me to put them into the same group (makes sense I guess) however, if those nodes or networks are already in other groups you cannot change the interface without removing it form the group. Very irritating, and while all of this keeps you from screwing up security, it is very much a PITA.
4. The GUI is also very strange, if you click on certain menus you see headlines with blue arrows which you must clcik to view the submenu. For instance clciking Firewall button brings up a submenu to click on Addresses, and then you see a blue button labled IP/MASK, I thought all 200 of my addresses had been lost until a few seconds later I clciked the blue arrow and they all appeared. Is that even necessary to have the IP/MASK submenu. It is downright stupid.
These things in my opinion need a lot of work and unfortunatly I don't think anough people will ever use them to give Fortinet feedback on them for improvement.
Overall these things have been more trouble than they're worth, I only mentioned the lastest debacles in this review, but logging and reports are a whole other story. Skip this buy and get something worthwhile Cisco or other top brand, something you need to configure with a CLI and not GUI.
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