Configuring Sonicwall Firewalls [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Chris Lathem (Author), Benjamin W. Fortenberry (Author), Joshua Reed (Author)
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Product Description
Configuring SonicWALL Firewal is the first book to deliver an indepth look at the SonicWALL firewall product line. It covers all of the aspects of the SonicWALL product line from the SOHO devices to the Enterprise SonicWALL firewalls. Also covered are advanced troubleshooting techniques and the SonicWALL Security Manager. This book offers novice users a complete opportunity to learn the SonicWALL firewall appliance. Advanced users will find it a rich technical resource.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Syngress (July 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597492507
• ISBN-13: 978-1597492508
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #420,795 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good with a few exceptions, June 26, 2006

By	dallasswuser (plano, tx United States) - See all my reviews

I've been using sonicwalls for the last 5 years. I was exited to see a sonicwall specific book that would take me past the help files and cds that come with the units themselves. At times, it does, and at others leaves you yearning for more.

For the record new users of sonicwalls will benifit from the use of this book - others, wanting to become Sonicwall guru's, will need something else.

For example it takes you step by step to set up a site to site vpn in SOnic OSe. Well covered. Hoever the section on the Sonicwall Global VPN client is pretty much the help file rewritten.

Also for those of you using the Sonic OS standard it eliminates that OS as a version worth using (which it is). So if you are not going to have multiple interfaces with different zones this book isn't for you.

Additionally it does not cover older versions of the sonicwall operating system. For those long time users of the sonicwall product line that need to figure out how to move from the older platform to the new this book is of no help. If are willing to to start with the new OS as a new user (willing to throw out "the way it worked before") and start over this book WILL help.

I was also looking for a 3rd part perspective that led to "tricks" with sonicwalls. Futhermore interoperability cases between Sonicwalls and other manufactureers models of differnt firmware versions would have been nice.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre, but it is the first book on Sonicwall available, April 5, 2007

By	Tyler Durden (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews

Certainly not enough coverage on VPN to make you feel comfortable. The authors basically took alot of the marketing information and assembled this collage. There is nothing on SonicPoints... Why not? This is a fundamental piece of a Sonicwall "Firewall" topology. No information on configuring the Sonicwall with 3rd party products, such as ISA Server, Cisco, Linksys, etc - It would have been nice to get a few scenerios. I gave it 3 stars, because it is the first book on the topic. I am not trying to be overly critical, I liked the overview of this book, but I find myself searching and using Sonicwall's own documentation and whitepapers far more effectively than this book, as I found it incomplete.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Probably shouldn't bother, January 24, 2008

By	John Fountain (Ambler, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is pretty much worthless. Anyone with an ounce of experience configuring any type of network device with a web-based interface could have written it. It's not a book that explains cause and effect relationships of configuration options. Basically what it does is tell you what to click in order to enable or change the different options on the firewall. Example: "Click the check box next to the VPN Policy to enable it"... No kidding, I wouldn't have guessed that's how it works! Brilliant! This book is chock-full of great, insightful gems like that. Someone buying a book to learn how to configure a device like this needs practical examples and descriptions of what the options actually do, not hand-holding for basic interface paradigms.