Table 2: Firewall Appliance Options for Larger High-Security Environments
Feature	SonicWALL PRO 4060	Cisco PIX-515E-UR-FE-BUN	RimApp RoadBLOCK F302PLUS
Price	$4995	$5145	$5580
Stateful application-layer inspection	No	Yes (limited)	Yes (comprehensive)
Application protocol validation	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stateful packet inspection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Transparent Windows authentication	No	No	Yes
Logging of all Web and Winsock applications and usernames	No	No	Yes
Application-layer inspection through SSL tunnels	No	No	Yes
Exchange support	No	No	Yes
Application-layer inspection of VPN client and gateway traffic	No	No	Yes
Intrusion detection and prevention	Yes	Yes	Yes
Remote-access VPN server and gateway	Yes	Yes	Yes
VPN client included	No	Yes	Yes
10/100 LAN ports	5	6	2-5
WAN ports	1-4	1-5	1
Load balancing	No	No	Yes
Number of users	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Failover	Yes	Yes	Yes
ISP failover and bandwidth aggregation	Yes	No	Yes
Configuration	Web interface	Command line and Web interface	Comprehensive Web and FIPS-compliant RDP
Processor	2GHz Intel	433MHz Celeron	2.8GHz Intel
Web caching and proxy	No	No	Yes