NETGEAR ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit Firewall with SSL & IPSec VPN FVS336G
Mfg Part #: FVS336G-100NAS
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NETGEAR's ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit Firewall with SSL & IPsec VPN offers the best of both worlds by offering two types of virtual private network (VPN) tunnels, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP security (IPsec), for optimal secure connection to your network. SSL VPN tunnels provide clientless remote access to your corporate data for individual access anywhere and anytime while IPsec VPN tunnels provide both secure site-to-site tunnels and legacy support for client-based remote access. Backed by a true firewall, this VPN router is a high-performance, SNMP-manageable, network solution that furnishes multidimensional security including denial-of-service (DoS) protection, stateful packet inspection (SPI), URL keyword filtering, logging, reporting, and real-time alerts. Four Gigabit LAN ports keep your data moving at top speed while two Gigabit WAN ports provide load-balancing and failover protection to ensure maximum throughput and reliable connectivity to the Internet. With Network Address Translation (NAT) routing and classical routing, up to 253 users can access your broadband connection at the same time.
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Review Date: Apr 08, 2008
| Syndil |
Strengths: Excellent VPN router for the money. Dual WAN ports, 4-port gig switch, superb firmware.
Weaknesses: Website blocking is only by keyword, cannot block specific URLs.
Summary: Purchased for one of my client locations. Has excellent throughput and handles VPN connections quite well. Really would like to see more options for website filtering. Blocking is keyword only, so if a website happens to even mention a keyword that is blocked, the entire site is blocked. This essentially makes blocking unusable since I cannot take the risk of blocking a business critical site just because it may happen to mention a blocked keyword. You can add trusted domains, but would be much easier to block specific URLs instead of only having keyword blocking.
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Review Date: Feb 27, 2008
| Jim |
Strengths: Good firewall, SSL VPN capability
Weaknesses: No dedicated DMZ port
Summary: This is a nice router that is a step up from the usual $50 boxes. Has good routing capability, two WAN ports for failover, and the built-in SSL VPN is a big selling point.
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Review Date: Jan 11, 2008
| Stephen King |
Strengths: Clientless SSL VPN and dual ISP load balancing
Weaknesses: No included IPSEC VPN Client software. You have to buy it.
Summary: Excellent VPN firewall router for soho market. Will buy more for other locations.
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Review Date: Jan 11, 2008
| Reliable, functional |
Strengths: 1) Very reliable.
Weaknesses: 1) Loopback hit-or-miss in load-balancing mode
2) Weak traffic-shaping
3) No traffic usage chart
Summary: Web interface is clean and functional. Changes take effect immediately instead of batch commit+reboot. Although for something drastic such as changing WAN mode you're better off with a reboot.
High # of bittorrent connections do not crash the router due to large NAT table, making it very reliable in single-WAN mode.
However loopback is hit-or-miss in dual-WAN load-balancing. Some PC could ping, others couldn't. And none could FTP.
If you're looking to limit UL/DL bandwidth, this unit can't do it. You're able to specify ToS handling for different protocols, but that's about it. Having moved from a D-Link DFL-700 and Kentrox Q2300, it's a bit disappointing. Although it has a built-in list of protocols you can use to build security policies, it does not display their properties which would have been useful as reference.
It also does not display traffic usage over 24-hr period in a nice line graph the way other routers do. Bit of a surprise as I've come to expect that from this class of routers.
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Comment by NAT Loopback (Jan 20, 2008 10:57pm )
I've determined that NAT loopback does not function with protocols bound to a particular WAN. There's no reason for protocol binding to break loopback. Hopefully they'll fix it with a FW update. |
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