Re: PIX vs CheckPoint

[John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:46:30PM -0700, Eric Paynter wrote:
> On Tue, June 29, 2004 11:59 am, James Patterson Wicks said:
> > CheckPoint's interface is very intuitive and easy to use.
> Easy to use in a "Microsoft" kind of way. Last I heard, it does nice
> things for you like always allow DNS traffic through, even if you have no
> port 53 rule and a deny all policy. How helpful!

Sounds like somebody needs to learn how to run FW-1.  There's several
"implied" rules which are set from Global Properties, and are only
displayed/logged if you specity to display/log implied rules.

John

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