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Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres
From: "Keith A. Glass" <salgak () speakeasy net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:00:03 +0000
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy () center osis gov] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 04:00 PM To: 'Marcus J. Ranum' Cc: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:39:27AM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:MHawkins () TULLIB COM wrote:"commodity pricing on firewalls" Am I the only one who fainted when I saw this?I got my firewall in a box of Corn Flakes... It works pretty well, too! mjr.No! All this time I had thought yours just spilled out of your fingers full-grown. ;-) As Paul said, TANSTAAFFW (there ain't no such thing as a free firewall) - but what you spend and where and how differs from firewall to firewall.
Yes and no. You CAN put up a decent firewalling solution using commodity computers, especially the 1-U units (Dell 1700-series, HP Proliant DL360s, etc. . ) and either Linux, Solaris (now that it's free) or some flavor of BSD, and the firewall of your choice. I just wish some of the vendors would allow their FW solution to be available outside the "appliance" vehicle (Yes, I'm talking about Symantec and Secure Computing. . .) When I was running the firewalls at SEC's EDGAR project, we used a mix of Gauntlets and FW-1, all running on various flavors of Sun hardware, from old Ultra 5's and 10's to new SunFire 480's (we were in an upgrade cycle, 18 months ago. . ) Keith Merrily running systems at Fort Belvoir. . . _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres MHawkins (Jan 27)
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- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
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- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Marcus J. Ranum (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Marcus J. Ranum (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Frank Knobbe (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
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- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Behm, Jeffrey L. (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Eugene Kuznetsov (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Jim Seymour (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Hurst, Dave (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Behm, Jeffrey L. (Jan 28)