Re: Firewall-1 platforms

["Shaun Moran" <Shaun () TheMorans Com>]

For the cost of some of the new Sun machines (Netra X1 / T1 ac200) there
isnt much price difference between a brand name INTEL server and a nice Sun
...

My preference is Sun - but as I always say - go with what you know (ie: what
your organisation can manage and support). Nothing worse than a black box
firewall that no-one knows how to patch ...

Shaun

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Reed" <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
To: "Kalat Andrew" <akalat () iss net>
Cc: <dlang () diginsite com>; <firewall-wizards () nfr com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall-1 platforms


> FWIW, my experience with different hardware platforms for firewalls
> quite clearly favours non-PC hardware.  I've even had bad experiences
> with units such as Compaq's 1RU boxes that lose PCI IRQ settings over
> a cold boot - the sort of rubbish I've never had to deal with on Sun
> (or HP's RISC) hardware.  Then again, I've had good success using PC
> hardware elsewhere...I just wouldn't trust it in an environment where
> you were running mission critical systems and real money/lives were
> on the line.
>
> Linux sort of runs on non-PC platforms but never as well as the native
> OS, such as Solaris.
>
> The only downside of using FW-1 on Solaris is that there have been
> times where their Unix management interface has worked differently
> and had different capabilities to its remote one that is run from a
> PC.
>
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