RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor

["Stadler, Brian T" <bstadler () ukans edu>]

I kind of caught the middle of the thread, but wouldn't an appliance box not
use a Hard Drive.  Something more along the lines of Non-Volatile memory,
like the PIX.

I'm not opposed to Firewalls having Hard Drives, I run many like that
myself.  But, if you are going to install a firewall in front of a large
network, where the firewall is the only way out, I'd want the least amount
of moving parts in that device.

Just a thought is all.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Bradd [mailto:wbradd () comcast net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:46 AM
To: Stadler, Brian T; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor


Why, most firewalls have HD's.



At 04:28 PM 3/18/2003 -0600, Stadler, Brian T wrote:
> There's a hard drive in the box?  If so that is scary.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SimonChan () lifeisgreat com sg [mailto:SimonChan () lifeisgreat com sg]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:15 PM
> To: Ted Frederick
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor
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> Hi Ted,
>
> what are u interested in finding out ?
>
> I was at a Symantec Demo and this is what I see:
> * appliance based
> * setup is done using symantec ghost which creates an image on the
> appliance harddisk
> * There 's a front panel, where u used to set IP address, password
> * the managment's station Mac/Ip address is noted by the box, so choose the
> managment station carefully.
> * gui-based managment
>
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>
> Rgds,
>
> Simon
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