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RE: High Speed Firewalls
From: "Woeltje, Donald" <dwoeltje () sebh org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 07:56:02 -0600
That's really nice........But you know what? I think I'll stick to a couple of Sidewinder firewalls, Axent ESM, Security Dynamics ACEServer/SecurID, Cylink PrivateWire, Datafellows F-Secure, CA Encrypt-It, ISS SafeSuite, and NAI NetShield/VirusScan. I know that your (and others) "e-commerce appliances" are suppose to contain everything, including the kitchen sink, but I think that when you try to do that something is going to get lost along the way. Other companies can go with those "super-duper, all-in-one, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink-too" boxes, but not any company that I'm the network/security engineer for. And even when I'm doing consulting work, unless it's a SOHO (where they simply don't have the funds to do it right), I still wouldn't recommend an "e-box" (That's what I'm going to call them from now on; an "e-box"). And if it is a SOHO, I simply won't take the job. I will not recommend a product, or a technology, that I simply don't believe in. Now if others think that these boxes do a good job, fine. What works fine for you is great by me. I'm in no position to tell anyone else that what they are doing is wrong. Not until I've "walked a mile in their shoes." So if there are people out there that read this that like the boxes, no offense intended. Indeed, I salute you. More power to you. But I will never you these boxes because I don't believe that they can bring everything to the table that a non-"all-in-one" solution can bring.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Byrd [SMTP:byrd () home com] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 10:56 PM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: Re: High Speed Firewalls Please excuse the vendor plug but this thread was too close to what we've developed to pass up... RapidStream (www.rapidstream.com) will be announcing high-performance security appliances starting in April. We are looking for good beta sites to test our Gigabit and 100 Mbps Ethernet appliances. If you're interested, send me an email. Bruce At 10:24 AM 3/3/00 -0800, Ryan McBride wrote:Lucent has a brand new product called the "Access Point 1000" which is a router/firewall/vpn solution, and claims to move data at speeds up to 450 Mb/s (155Mb/s 3DES) -Ryan Henry Baez wrote:I am doing research on very high speed firewalls. I mean firewallsthatare right now available that could handle OC3 and higher speeds viaGigByte Etherenet cards. In searching the recent posting of this listanda lot of general web searching, I have found only one firewall that claims they can do so. It is call POTUS from a company calledLivermoreSoftware Laboratories. I would very much like to find at leaseanothervendor which at lease matches the claim of PORTUS, 300 MB plus through put. Management, bless them, likes to have choices, I would like to present more then one vendor if possiable. I have experiences with two commercial firewalls, Checkpoint and Gauntlet, and one freeware firewall, Ipfilter. But the links wherewayunder 10 Meg Byte. None of the firewalls I have work on 'claim' the speeds I am looking for. All the magazines 'test/reviews' I havelookedat top out at about 150 Meg. Byte. The number of users for thisprojectwould not be large, but each one would be moving Gig Byte size files across the world.-- Ryan McBride - mcbride () countersiege com Systems Security Consultant Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com
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