Re: barrcuda spam firewall eval

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I support two of these units for one of our customers who also allows us 
to route our email through it since we are a teeny tiny fraction of the 
mail they carry (well except for paul that brings us up some :-)  Of the 
two units one is doing outbound and one doing inbound.  The outbound 
unit makes sure that all the folks connected to the network (which 
functions much as an ISP) are not spamming or polluted with viri.  This 
wee we kicked about 1.3M spam and 1700 viruses and allowed about 150K 
messages to pass.

We have been very pleased with the software and functions though we can 
always find something we'd like them to do. Someone mentioned the latest 
update, we have that as well and it provided several of the features we 
were looking for in addition to the better blocking.

One issue we have had is with their hardware. We have had multiple 
failures on these things including BOTH units going brackets up two 
weeks ago two days apart. If you don't have their 'instant replacement' 
coverage you're hosed and even then it takes a couple days to get the 
things. They use very low end components. The disks are mirrored (they 
show RAID but hey, it's only 2 drives!) however we've never had a disk 
failure, usually power supplies and mother boards.

One of my customers tried their http spyware/malware/crapware 
scanner/blocker box and has had it for many months and it still doesn't 
work despite multiple replacements. It won't pass authentication for one 
and after about 30 minutes stops all traffic until you reboot it. NOT 
recommending that one.

 - Larry

seanmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We are going to do an eval on the Barracuda Spam firewall.
>
> What is the latest on the product? Is it living up to its reputation?
>
> Thx, 
>
> Sean
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