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RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres
From: "Eugene Kuznetsov" <eugene () datapower com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:35:18 -0500
Of Keith A. Glass
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. . .)
Hmm, this is pretty interesting, because it's contrary to what I hear elsewhere. Could you talk about why you would rather get software instead of a sealed appliance -- ignoring, for the time being, the cases where the appliance includes hardware acceleration for some aspects of security processing. Is it perceived cost? Desire to reuse old hardware? Even for Checkpoint, over 50% of the business is appliance-based, maybe more now. Now, granted, if what you're getting from the vendor is the dreaded "server appliance" -- the same Dell 1U server with RedHat & some custom software preinstalled -- it probably doesn't matter. \\ Eugene Kuznetsov, Chairman & CTO : eugene () datapower com \\ DataPower Technology, Inc. : Web Services security \\ http://www.datapower.com : XML-aware networks _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
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- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
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