[c-nsp] Hardware for 'managed firewall'

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, David Hughes wrote:
> On 30/09/2009, at 7:08 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Christopher Hunt wrote:
>>> As I painfully discovered, the Cisco ASA in Multiple Context mode does not 
>>> support IPSEC VPN clients nor L2TP3 tunnels
>> 
>> That's a pretty big omission! Any ETA to add that capability?
> Yeah, they've never supported VPN in multi-context mode.  Major pain.  And if 
> you are a dense hosting provider the 50 context limit (and limited 
> performance) of a 5540 for example doesn't work too well.  These issues made 
> us look around again and J-Vendor's boxes are making the ASA's look a bit 
> ordinary.

I never enjoyed working on the netscreens. I suppose if each virtual 
firewall customer could get the same awkward web interface for self 
provisioning it could be made to work.

-- 
Dave Weis
djweis at internetsolver.com
http://www.internetsolver.com/