Netgear FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200

Average customer rating: 3.0

A solid product
Unreliable - drops connection

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Netgear FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200

Manufacturer: Netgear
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00076ZV38
2005-04-25

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Product Description

At the heart of your office network, NETGEAR's high performance security appliance, ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 offers a complete security solution for small and medium sized companies. This rackmountable, Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall is equipped with support for up to 200 security associations (VPN tunnels). The FVX538 can serve as a DHCP Server, supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Quality of Service (QoS) and has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most common Internet attacks. With support for Trend Micro anti-virus policy enforcement functionality, the FVX538 ships with a 60 day evaluation copy of Trend Micro Client/Server Suite for SMB and Trend Micro Client/Server/Messaging Suite for SMB for customers without current licenses. Designed with small businesses in mind, the Trend Micro CS and CSM combine workstation and server virus protection (including Trojans, worms, and hackers, plus spyware, grayware, and blended threats) into a single solution, empowering small business owners to deploy and manage an effective antivirus strategy with limited IT investment.

Customer Reviews:

A solid product.......2007-04-08

The other review for this item might scare you into not buying it, but we installed one of these firewalls to protect my employers network and it has performed flawlessly. We liked it's gigabit capability, and that it can be connected to 2 internet sources for redundancy or to increase capacity. We also like it's construction, which is a solid metal cabinet which seems to shed heat nicely and has enough heft to say put if it's simply set of a shelf.

Unreliable - drops connection.......2007-01-23

While I have been very pleased with the performance of this product, configuration and setup was very easy, and even updates to the device are easy to do, it's not reliable.

It seems that every 3 or 4 days I lose connection to the Internet. This is a 7 PC network, couple of servers. There really isn't huge bandwidth being used. But it is like it gets frozen - you can't ping it, you can't get to anything on the outside like the gateway or DNS servers, and a simple power reset gets it working again.

Nothing is in the log, I have to believe this is some sort of firmware problem. I have checked all the ideas on Netgear's site without help. I know at least some of the time it freezes during the middle of the night, when no one is using it. Could it be getting zapped from the outside somehow? But it sure is not reliable, I can't recommend it.

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