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Getting Started
1.1Introduction
Figure 1 – FW-6420 Outlook
Designed for the Small and Medium-sized Businesses(SMB) in mind, the FW-6420 is a powerful, yet flexible mini-desktop solution for the SMB network security market. The FW-6420 is embedded with a VIA Eden low power CPU, running at 400MHz or 1GHz. It is also equipped with four Ethernet ports each with its own Realtek RTL8139C+ and supports Compact Flash Type II, PCI and Mini PCI. The FW-6420 is the ideal solution for developers, who require a speedy Time-to-Market network security product for the fast growing network security market. With this network security device you can provide a number of networking security functions that werer previously only available for the larger Enterprises, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN), Firewall, Multi-Homing and many more.
1.1.1 Features
Listed below are the key features of FW-6420.
Supports 2.5” HDD
Supports VIA Eden ESP 400MHz or 1GHz processor
Supports one DDR DIMM socket (184-pin);up to 1 GB
Supports four 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports, each with an independent Realtek RTL8139C+ chipset
Supports Compact Flash, Serial(RS-232), PCI and Mini PCI.
One software reset Button
Mini desktop network security solution
Suitable Network applications; Virtual Private Network(VPN), Firewall, IDS, Multi-Homing, Residential Gateway, Router and many more…
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