firewalls

The firewall appliances we have for sale are aimed at small and medium businesses. They include most of the features found in much more expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases.

Prices start at £300, and are dependent on the amount of traffic moving to and from your Internet connection. The price includes initial configuration. Maintenance contracts and training courses are available.

Lawton Connections

Lawton Connections is a London based company offering a wide range of structured cabling services designed to support all your company’s networking needs.

They required a robust, easy to manage, firewall solution which would enable VPN access to their internal network and servers.

firewall features

Hardware

Fanless and Low Power Consumption Design
6 LAN ports
- 2 Gb ports
- 4 10/100 Mb ports
2 USB (V2.0)
Compact Flash Slot
Mini-PCI Slot

Firewall

Filtering by source and destination IP, IP protocol, source and destination port for TCP and UDP traffic
Able to limit the number of simultaneous connections on a per-rule basis
Allows you to filter by the Operating System initiating the connection. So you could allow Apple MAC or Linux machines to the Internet, but block Windows machines.
Option to log or not log traffic matching each rule
Full load balancing, clustering, multiple WAN support
Aliases allow grouping and naming of IPs, networks and ports. This helps keep your firewall ruleset clean and easy to understand, especially in environments with multiple public IPs and numerous servers
Transparent layer 2 firewalling capable - can bridge interfaces and filter traffic between them, even allowing for an IP-less firewall (though you probably want an IP for management purposes)

State Table

On a per-rule basis:
- Limit simultaneous client connections
- Limit states per host
- Limit new connections per second
- Define state timeout
- Define state type
State types - multiple options for state handling
State table optimization options - four options for state table optimization

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Port forwards including ranges and the use of multiple public IPs
1:1 NAT for individual IPs or entire subnets
Outbound NAT
NAT Reflection - in some configurations, NAT reflection is possible so services can be accessed by public IP from internal networks

VPN

IPsec
OpenVPN
PPTP

Other Features:

Real Time Reporting
Dynamic DNS
Captive Portal
DHCP Server
DHCP Relay

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