In the next few months I’m going to be bringing DSL service into my
work place and I need some help on a hardware firewall. I have about 60
users spread out between four locations and will hopefully have them all
setup with DSL service by the end of next summer. I want to connect my
branch’s up to us using a VPN solution. Theirs certain features that I
want on this firewall. I would like to be able to shut down all
Internet service (incoming/outgoing) after hours and on weekends because
that just invites hackers into the system. So I guess the firewall
would need an internal clock of some kind. I also want to have my users
log in before using the Internet and restrict my users to a certain list
of web sites that they will have access to. One more concern I have.
We aren’t using a formal PC network here (Win2000 or Novell) but we do
have our PC’s (Win95/98) connected into a hub and we have sharing
enabled to use printer’s on the network and to share some files. Do I
need to worry about changing any of this if we have a good firewall
system in place?
Can you recommend a firewall product?
Mark McWilliams
