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Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor
From: "Cheryl Goh" <cherylgoh () elock com my>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:02:15 +0800
A hardware firewall will typically run off an ASIC chip and will not have a hard disk. Examples of a hardware firewall would be Netscreen. Watchguard however is a hybrid firewall. It uses a combination of an ASIC chip and software. An appliance firewall is defined as a firewall that comes with an appliance. These appliances are often "pc's in a box" that have a hard disk, cpu ram etc. A example of an appliance firewall is the Cyberguard. These firewalls often provide the option of RAID to reduce the chances of a single hard disk failure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stadler, Brian T" <bstadler () ukans edu> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:46 AM Subject: RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor
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. -----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 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 Rgds, Simon--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "My statements in this message are personal opinions which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."
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Current thread:
- Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Ted Frederick (Mar 17)
- RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Ted Frederick (Mar 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor SimonChan (Mar 18)
- RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Stadler, Brian T (Mar 18)
- RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Stadler, Brian T (Mar 20)
- RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor David Gillett (Mar 21)
- Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Cheryl Goh (Mar 24)
- RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor Paris Stone (Mar 24)