Re: "upgrade" for Gauntlet

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

I recall at one time or another Network Associates (*cough) or Sun resold a 
packaged E-ppliance with Gauntlet residing on top of Solaris.  I am sure 
one can probably persue e-bay for it.  Albeit unsupported from either SCC

/cheers

/m

At 09:22 AM 09/08/2004, Kevin Kadow wrote:

> Morty writes:
> > So, Gauntlet is no longer available.
> > Securecomputing is pushing Sidewinder G2.
>
> Whe G2  is a good hybrid FW. It's nowhere near a drop-in replacement for 
> Gauntlet;  management is getting sick of hearing me say "Sidewinder isn't 
> Gauntlet".
>
> I have a users group for Sidewinder,
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sidewinder-users/
>
> There are many, many differences between Gauntlet and Sidewinder -- we've 
> "upgraded"  a half-dozen Gauntlet 5 and 6 firewalls, and not one has been 
> an easy drop-in replacement.
>
> In several cases, we ended up keeping a Gauntlet around to 
> serve  "executive visible" functions (cough Bloomberg SOCKS cough) not 
> available (outright broken) in Sidewinder G2.
>
> I am not saying Cyberguard would give better results, just that I 
> personally am dissatisfied with SCC.
>
> If you have the option to redeploy modern Sun Sparc hardware from a 
> Gauntlet installation, you might add Checkpoint on Solaris to your list.
>
> Kevin
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