Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres

["Keith A. Glass" <salgak () speakeasy net>]

> -----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. . .


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