Transparent firewalls are definitely a great enhancement to traditional firewall arena, for the very reason that the presence is not revealed.

A simple article on what are the advantages of having one in such a mode is described … Read More…

One of the other reasons why I like Juniper Netscreen firewalls is the same again. All of the models can work as Transparent mode firewalls (it doesn’t mean the drawback is like you can’t have VPN on it, even I thought so but these firewalls also allow you to build a VPN while in Xparent mode.