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Re: Sonicwall or Watchguard
From: "B. James Phillippe" <bryanxms () ecst csuchico edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:07:33 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Eric Budke wrote:
I can't speak from an administration standpoint, but from a user standpoint, my company's Watchguard sucks. It requires a reboot to update rules (from what I understand they are
They just released version 5.0 which doesn't have this problem anymore.
And the "VPN" solution is really false advertising. It just opens up a hole in your firewall. If you are using any sort of NAT, you have now opened up a whole in your firewall for all the other users behind that nat to get in.
I don't understand what you mean here. I have used WatchGuard's VPN (IPSec) and NAT and have not had any security issues; the VPN tunnel is configured completely separate to the NAT and security policies, and both NAT and security policies can be applied to VPN traffic (within the tunnel). -bp -- # bryanxms at ecst dot csuchico dot edu # Software Engineer _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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