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Reinhof's avatar
Reinhof
Aspirant
Oct 24, 2023
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PR60X

Is the PR60X just a basic firewall?  Is there a way to do advanced type of configurations like blocking sites, spam detection, malicious URLs, DOS prevention, etc...?

  • According to the readily available PR60X product documentation, the Product Data Sheet, and the User Manuals its a pure dual WAN firewall with some VPN capabilities - however not a fully fledged Unified Threat Management (UTM) or the like.

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  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User

    According to the readily available PR60X product documentation, the Product Data Sheet, and the User Manuals its a pure dual WAN firewall with some VPN capabilities - however not a fully fledged Unified Threat Management (UTM) or the like.

    • Reinhof's avatar
      Reinhof
      Aspirant

      Thank you so much.  Seems like a fairly expensive solution for not having any threat management. 

       

      Yes, I didn't see anything in the documentation, but wanted to make sure there was no add on somewhere.

       

      Do you have any recommendations for something that has threat management?

      • schumaku's avatar
        schumaku
        Guru - Experienced User

        Expensive? If you compare to single or dual WAN Gigabit appliances probably.

         

        It's powerful and capable firewall hardware...

         

        High performance hardware 10G/Multi-Gigabit throughput and 1x2.5G WAN, 1x10G/Multi-Gigabit
        WAN/LAN configurable port, 3x2.5G LAN and 1x10G SFP+ LAN.
        WAN-to-LAN Throughput When using WAN2 port - 10Gbps max WAN with 17.5Gbps max LAN
        When using WAN1 port only - 2.5Gbps max WAN with 27.5Gbps max LAN

         

        ...even if Netgear still does not publish IPsec VPN throughput numbers, unless I have missed something.

         

        For UTM systems, look out for Check Point,  Fortinet, ZyXEL, Sophos, just my personal preferences of choice for example.

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