A router/firewall/switch is a type of device. Just as a Firewall isnt a router, a 元 switch isnt a router even though it can route. Gregg, you are confusing form and function (or noun and verb). That you can force it to route by defeating its protection mechanisms doesn't make it a router anymore than a pencil with an eraser on it is an eraser - it's still a pencil, albeit a pencil with an erase function built in. A firewall isn't a router, it's an anti-router. However, Red-for-Red is not always available.
The discounts are good, but not as deep as the "Red for Red" (a WatchGuard device to newer WatchGuard device) trade-up program. I just did that with an ancient Edge X10e-W and traded up to a T35 for a client who had left me, gone to a Cisco router/firewall, then came back to me a few years later and *finally* wanted to upgrade her network.ĮDIT: Another option is WatchGuard's competitive trade-up program. The comment to ".use the Trade-up Program to get a new one" is exactly what I was going to recommend. OF COURSE it's router! And it's a firewall, and it's UTM device, all in one pretty red box.Ī completely unlicensed WatchGuard firewall/router will still perform as a router (and still be able to do blocking of executable files and some other blocking). If it's "NOT a router" then it CANNOT route. This statement "Yes, It can (and probably will) do your routing but it's NOT a router" makes no sense. If your client(s) have an older firewall whose subscription/licensing has expired, use the Trade-up Program to get a new one (with a Security Services subscription).
Meaning if the licensing for a new client that happens to have purchased a Watchguard Unit a few years back, requires the previous years to be purchased to bring it up to current. If a license is not renewed, for example, the Watchguard Licensing requires back dated effective dates. Any licensing is specific to the Firewall. Yes, It can (and probably will) do your routing but it's NOT a router. Any WatchGuard Firewall is a Firewall first and foremost. We are interested in hearing from the community, whether or not, there exists more cost effective licensing for Routers/Firewalls etc that are comparable to the WatchGuard Line?įirst, SPLIT Routers and Firewalls apart.
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