Old router trial services

[CAWJames]

Evening all,

 

I need to swap around 2 of my Sonicwalls, as we have upgraded a line and the NSA2400 will now be more suited to our new 100 and the TZ215 more to the 20.

 

So the problem is, these are a few hundred miles apart, so not feasible to unplug one and rush to the other site and back as we would lose a site for a day.

 

I have some old firewalls, a couple of watchguards and a TZ210, so I could bring one of them into service for a week so we can get everything done, but we have the full security package, and obviously the old firewalls are out of their original subs.

 

I know there are trials available for some services, but does anyone know if I can get a trial for all services to keep me going for a week, on these old boxes?

 

I did think about knocking up a smoothwall to keep things going, but that's time and finding an extra network card to fit in a computer, finding space to put it, hoping its reliable, etc, but then this idea came into my head!

 

Any ideas people?

 

Thanks

 

James

[Steve21]

Not sure many trials would let you reuse out of sub equipment on especially if you're not planning to buy at all

 

You considered something like pfsense on the watchguard?

 

Steve

[CAWJames]

Hi Steve,

 

I didn't they would, we are upgrading middle of next year when our subs are out on the main boxes, but as you say not yet, and we aren't buying at the moment!

 

I have pfsense on one of the WG's actually, I had a play about with it ages ago, might dig it out and see if it has enough to keep us going. thanks for jogging my memory!

 

James