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1) Keep it as a spare in case the other fails.<br />
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2) Use it to protect your internal servers.<br />
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3) Sell it on eBay.<br />
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Jeff
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1) Keep it as a spare in case the other fails.

2) Use it to protect your internal servers.

3) Sell it on eBay.

Jeff

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The firebox DOES do active/passive high availability. &nbsp;It does NOT do load balancing. &nbsp;Basically one firebox is on, and the other is dormant, receiving hearbeats from the active firebox. &nbsp;If it stops hearing the heartbeats, it turns on and assumes the IP and NAT table from the previously active firebox.<br />
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I don't know that I would do that though. &nbsp;I would probably set it up at my house and create an IPSEC tunnel to my office. &nbsp;Then I would never get dressed and work from home.
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The firebox DOES do active/passive high availability.  It does NOT do load balancing.  Basically one firebox is on, and the other is dormant, receiving hearbeats from the active firebox.  If it stops hearing the heartbeats, it turns on and assumes the IP and NAT table from the previously active firebox.

I don't know that I would do that though.  I would probably set it up at my house and create an IPSEC tunnel to my office.  Then I would never get dressed and work from home.

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We had 2 offices and had a VPN set up between the 2 offices and we used Watchguard product the Firebox 700. It worked perfect for us and did what we need. &nbsp;We now have merged to 1 office and therefor do not need the other Firebox. So my question is...what can we do with it? 
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We had 2 offices and had a VPN set up between the 2 offices and we used Watchguard product the Firebox 700. It worked perfect for us and did what we need.  We now have merged to 1 office and therefor do not need the other Firebox. So my question is...what can we do with it? 

We have one extra Firebox 700 what can we do with it?

Software firewalls, also known as host-based firewalls, provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in and out of that single machine. Most operating systems now include firewall software, but many available software firewalls include central distribution, antivirus systems and disaster recovery.