Firebrick

The FireBrick^® is a simple to use intelligent hardware firewall, it prevents access to your systems except from trusted sources and for special purposes.

It can, re-route traffic, bond multiple routes together, prioritise traffic, be remotely managed, is simple to use, has features to help prevent mistakes, can monitor traffic, can separate and route all 5 ports, supports vlan tags and lots more.

Most of all if you don't understand what all this fire-walling is about, you can just plug it in and go. If you need special configuration we can even talk you through the basic set up on the phone so that we can remotely configure the system for you.

The lights really can be set to cycle their lights (like Kit in knightrider), you can also synch multiple firebricks (8 works well) to create a "Mexican wave" in your rack! (they could, of course, be put to more practical uses... is there anything more practical than pretty light patterns?)

Overview
Standard Features
- Filtering - What has or has not got access to what. (what firewalls are all about really)
- Grouping - Allows you to give names to IP addresses and ports so a to make setting rules simple and less prone to error. (e.g. a group call customers, add a new IP to the group and they have that access)
- Subnets & DHCP, the Firebrick acts as a router and a persistent DHCP server i.e. it give the same IP address to the same equipment, Dynamic but fixed.
- Port and IP Mapping
Optional Features
- Extras - more of everything, if you have a very complex setup you may need to buy the extras pack.
- Shaping - if you need to manage your bandwidth then this is the feature for you you can reserve bandwidth, make traffic jump the queue, have low priority traffic take the back seat or just abuse your position and make sure you always get maximum bandwidth for yourself. On a more serious note VoIP is very fussy about latency and this feature has made otherwise impossible connection work really well just by managing the bandwidth better.
- Profiles allow you to change the rules, profiles can be activated by Time, ping responses, or manually switched on. Routing, filtering, bandwidth management all can be assigned to profiles and changed by profiles.
- Tunnels allow you to send traffic to another brick* on another network normally used to create a VPN (*an open source Linux tunnel end point is also available)
- Reporting option allows additional information this can be used to monitor networks, and give statistics on the managed hub.
- 5 Port option converts the FireBrick to have 5 separate firewall ports rather than one port and a 4 port managed hub.
- Vlan option allows Vlan tags to be used with Vlan switches to give even more security.
- Other features are planned and will be released later.
Services
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OverView

You can restrict the bandwidth available to low priority traffic such as news and email (Or ensure additional bandwidth is reserved for high priority services such as VoIP) with traffic shaping.

This product is aimed at users with a fixed Internet connection presented as Ethernet with an RJ45 connection, the product is truly Plug and Play allowing a level of protection straight from the box. The feature list is very comprehensive and includes Firewall, Tunneling, Stealth, Shaping, NAT, DHCP and 4 port managed hub. Features like these have hitherto only been found in very high cost equipment.

The FireBrick stealth feature allows the firewall to operate completely transparently to the network. It will not show up on any network scans or port scans. The tools that hackers might use to identify a firewall will not help them. As a result the FireBrick can be plugged into a network and the network still operates without any reconfiguration.

The tunnelling feature allows for connection of the FireBrick so that the private addresses in one office can communicate with the private addresses in another office using the Internet and the FireBricks public addresses to carry an IP tunnel. This provides for a large virtual private network (VPN) using FireBrick tunnels. The tunnels are configured to operate only on specific public IP addresses, and use a shared secret/password to further protect against attack. Normal firewall filters can be applied to tunnelled traffic, allowing specific access between sites to be managed.

DHCP & Routing

Mapping (Port & IP)