Mart
Your inexpierience with Linux is what could potentially open up a hole in the system. Linux regardless of flavor also needs updates and patching otherwise you may find that someday someone else is now managing your box for you but you might not know because you don't have the experience to fully manage and keep up on top of it.
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Yeah that is one of my fears also. It all needs to be done by mid February 2007 and learning "everything" about Linux and its security stuff in 7 weeks is a bit to much to ask for imho.
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I would go with an all-in-one solution as well if possible. Not that you could possibly mess something up on one of them as well, but probably less likely.
I'll look into several possible solutions to see what fits me and my company best. For now I'm looking around for some alternatives for our current firewall that we can not manage and therefore are almost unable to re-use it in our coming new network setup. Been looking at Smoothwall because a colleague of mine had a Smoothwall firewall on his corporate network when we took over the company. I downloaded an evaluation version of Suse 10 enterprise server today and will also bee doing some testing with that.
My first choice would be something like the Symantec Gateway Security 5400 series. This would be my personal favourite but looking around and doing some testing wont hurt.
So far thanks for the suggestions and comments guys.
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Mart
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