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Which way should I go?

My question concerns firewalls, looking for opinions here.
My company needs to implement a firewall solution, i am torn between buying a new appliance (firewal) or adding something to the spare cisco 2600 series router.
Was looking for a cisco solution either way we go.
Anybody have any experience (good or bad) either way?
I also need to implement a vpn soltion into this, does this mean I need a firewall appliance? Does anyone know of a good solution from cisco in the $5k to $10k range?
Thanks.

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My reasoning behind cisco equipment is simply throughput, but yes I like the idea of keeping all my hardware from the same manufacturer (for compatability sake) .There are 50+ end users not including the 4 VPN connections.Also something that I had failed to mention, there are 2 separate routers with two separate wan connections coming in, and I need to wire both ethernet ports through the firewall, Is this going to be an issue? Do they make such a beast as to allow for this?

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sh00t3r

Well if there's anyone on this board I would agree with it would be Irmoore. I was under the assumption that the PIX IDS solution was more or less a limited IDS system. Glad I know now!

In regards to the two WAN connections. Most advanced corp firewalls have numerous NIC's that you can specify as WAN or LAN. If the two WAN connections are actually two seperate ISP's you'll have to use some type of load balancing hardware. Something like radware or BigIP F5 boxes. Otherwise you'll just plug the two WAN's into the two NIC's you specified as WAN connections. Hope this helps!

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