Firewall Selection Help

Good day. I'm starting a network consisting of 50 PCs (both wireless
and wired solution) through a
satellite connection. I need a dedicated firewall which will be able
to accomplish the following:

-MAC Filtering for hardlined machines (the wireless router can handle
MAC filtering for wireless)
-Badwidth limits per MAC address for a specific time period
-Logs of all traffic
-Log specifically for bandwidth
-Blocking of some P2P processes, but not all (don't allow gaming but
do allow skype, etc)
-DHCP
-Normal DoS protection, etc
-VPN is not important to us


Any advice? I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping
to
spend less than $200. I've seen ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 Plus, which looks
good,
but I'm not 100% convinced.


Thanks for your help.

<LTKaveman@gmail.com> wrote in message
> Good day. I'm starting a network consisting of 50 PCs (both wireless
> and wired solution) through a
> satellite connection. I need a dedicated firewall which will be able
> to accomplish the following:
>
> -MAC Filtering for hardlined machines (the wireless router can handle
> MAC filtering for wireless)
> -Badwidth limits per MAC address for a specific time period
> -Logs of all traffic
> -Log specifically for bandwidth
> -Blocking of some P2P processes, but not all (don't allow gaming but
> do allow skype, etc)
> -DHCP
> -Normal DoS protection, etc
> -VPN is not important to us
>
>
> Any advice? I'm finding tons of equipment out there, but I'm hoping
> to
> spend less than $200. I've seen ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 Plus, which looks
> good,
> but I'm not 100% convinced.

I might be way wrong but to find a firewall to do all that you're going to
need more than $200.
One of the free linux firewall distros and an old computer might do the
trick
Per your statement about the wireless handing wireless and wired handling
wired I would re think that and let wireless just be an access point and let
the firewall do all of your traffic control.

Adair