Aki,<br>If i may be bold, and answer...<br><br>Most of the products put across here (CheckPoint, Sonicwall, Cyberoam, ASA) all come with a subscription service that downloads / updates rules for IDS, Packet inspection, Anti-Spam etc.<br>
<br>These updated rules, tied together with AD integration and User-based reporting, will ensure that the customer has the best protection, while getting reports and visibility into the network.<br>The customer will not need to have RHCE,LPI certification to operate/configure.<br>
<br>All these features in one product MUST surely cost money.<br><br>Most of these products actually run on Open source platforms (Cyberoam, Sonicwall run a Linux kernel)<br><br>I have not seen any free Open source product that can bundle all the features of an IDS<br>
<br>Am currently evaluating Endian firewall Community<br><a href="http://www.endian.com/us/community/download/">http://www.endian.com/us/community/download/</a><br><br>Download:<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/Development/EFW-2.5.1/EFW-COMMUNITY-2.5.1-201201261800.iso/download">http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/Development/EFW-2.5.1/EFW-COMMUNITY-2.5.1-201201261800.iso/download</a><br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>./Sam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:49 PM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
@Tusker, am just sharing my opinion here. I do apologise for my curt and blunt response here. Besides the few who know and have responded, am shocked that after reading your issue about torrents and bandwidth usage problems, no one and not even the so called &quot;Open Source Product Specialists ( opps, sorry re-sellers )&quot; have a freakin&#39; clue what you need as a solution. All they know is what they can sell to you. 
<div><br></div><div>Can you please ask them how their so called Open Source Magic products are going to work with the network problems you have? For a start, can anyone who is selling NTM products and knows TCP comment on my question.. How will your NTM product help resolve Torrents, incases where the traffic is encrypted and hopping on different ports numbers, say Port 80? Will they then recommend that you block http access?!!!</div>

<div><br></div><div>@Tusker, kindly do not spend any money without them actually responding in detail to your problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Rgds. :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>

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