I am looking at which ASA to buy as hardware firewall. Now i would really want a 19" rack mountable, but their damn expensive (from what i can find the 5510 which is 19" rack mountable, starts at $2000,-). The other option is the ASA 5505 which go's for less then 300E, but is not rackmountable.

Anyone here happends to be able to get their hands on a cheap 19" rackmountable ASA?

I can offer the 5510 for EUR 1.872,-- incl. taxes, but cisco is known as damn expensive!

(these days I do a lot of business with fortinet, u ever thought about such stuff?)

Hiya, yea, i thought about fortinet, but my expertise lies with with Cisco.

Here is what i think i'll do. I'll buy a ASA 5505, rip it apart, build it in a empty 19" case, then it will be rackmountable aswell

Good plan, as those come for just a few hundred bucks!

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M.A.S.K. , is the mighty power that can save the day

Saint will broke it tbh...

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

Wut. They are expensive just because they're mountable on a rack?

Now I don't know anything about servers and all that jazz, but couldn't you just create your own railings out of ice cream sticks or similar? I know I could.

(Also, wouldn't this thread fit better in the "Hard and software" forum?)

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slurper

Nah, their not more expensive because of that, its just a higher spec range