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Hey guys

So, another company has kindly given me an old Sonicwall 2400 for me to use. They in turn acquired it when they bought another company and since they had an existing firewall, this one just became a spare.

Now - I have never set one up before and have no idea what is involved - but just wanted to clarify a few things before I called out my IT company to have it installed.

I tried registering on the sonicwall.com website but see the serial number is already registered to another account. I called the IT guy from the company I got it from and he said since it was registered in the name of the company that was acquired and used their email address, he has no way of logging into the account to transfer the serial number to my account. He did say it shouldnt matter though, and that all I will be missing out on is firmware updates. Is this true?

I basically needed a firewall to help control the internet usage in my company, to improve our security and to help create virtual networks so I can segregate my manufacturing machinery from the rest of the network. Not sure if this is overkill or not - I have about 30 users on my network and about 50 IP's.

Thanks!
 
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We have a top-of-the-range Dell Sonicwall, and it did not meet our expectations, as you cannot assign multiple public IP's to its external interface.

Also, you're not able to do content filtering or bandwidth throttling on it.

You can do content filtering, but you'll need an extra PC to do that. If I had my way, we would've just used a good, spare workstation and Smoothwall/pfSense for that instead...
 
The_Librarian said:
We have a top-of-the-range Dell Sonicwall, and it did not meet our expectations, as you cannot assign multiple public IP's to its external interface.

Also, you're not able to do content filtering or bandwidth throttling on it.

You can do content filtering, but you'll need an extra PC to do that. If I had my way, we would've just used a good, spare workstation and Smoothwall/pfSense for that instead...
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You can assign multiple ip to a single interface :)

Also you can do bandwidth throttling on it :) Use it on apple macs and iphone / ipads as they bandwidth hungry devices

You can do content filtering using 3 methods :)
 
You will be able to do this. You can also contact Dell and ask to have the Sonicwall serial # transferred. You certainly will need firmware upgrades (especially if the device was never updated). The device does what it is supposed to do, but is IMO at the bottom of ease of use and technical support generally sucks.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
You will be able to do this. You can also contact Dell and ask to have the Sonicwall serial # transferred. You certainly will need firmware upgrades (especially if the device was never updated). The device does what it is supposed to do, but is IMO at the bottom of ease of use and technical support generally sucks.
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Agreed not user friendly at all eg lets say you delete a firewall rule , it creates additional rules , objects in multiple places on the firewall so things can become a real mess quickly and bloat the firewall with unnessary junk left over.
 
ubercal said:
You can assign multiple ip to a single interface :)

Also you can do bandwidth throttling on it :) Use it on apple macs and iphone / ipads as they bandwidth hungry devices

You can do content filtering using 3 methods :)
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Believe me, we had the Dell experts out, they could not do it. And it was one of the things we only found out afterwards.
 
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