SOPHOS UTM Advice

[RowlandoGloom]

Hi Everybody.

 

Currently at my school, I have about 1,000 devices on the system, which are a mixture of just about everything that can access the internet.

 

Currently, I'm running TMG 2010 - which obviously is now EOL.

 

I'm looking at SOPHOS UTM as a replacement.

 

Currently our web filtering is, and will still be, provided by our Smoothie.

 

I am looking at the SG 210, which is the first 1U model. I need a box with at least 5NICS - so don't know whether this is plain overkill (as it's not inspecting all web traffic), so if that's the case would I even get away with the SG 125?

 

We have a 200Mb/s internet connection

I have 3 main internal networks

Main - ~600 computers

Second network - ~400 iPads

DMZ for web server hosting

 

 

Cheers for your advice.

 

Paul.

[MatthewL]

Surely the Smoothwall can do all this for you?

[howartp]

Yep...

[RowlandoGloom]

Does Smoothwall support NATting though?

 

I've got several websites published / RDS / and some cross-network traffic (I.e one of my networks using DNS from a server on another?)

 

Paul.

Edited June 22, 2015 by RowlandoGloom

[Oaktech]

The Sophos UTM, will do what you want it to do... I'm looking after about 10 installs of the free one for private clients, running on an assortment of hardware doing all the things you are asking for.

 

HOWEVER... I suspect that the smoothie will also do all the things you are after. I will let the smoothie experts handle that part of the question!