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Re: External Load Balancing
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:40:40 -0500
Kevin wrote:
One advantage of the Radware products is that they are true appliances
Appliance, schmaiance! What's in an appliance? Software. What's in a Windows box? Software. What's in a Linux box? Software. What's in a Cisco box? Software. "Appliance" is just a frozen configuration of a software/hardware combination. Sometimes it's a good configuration of good software. Sometimes it's not. I saw one "appliance" that had a back-door telnetd on a "hidden" (who'd ever think to look for telnetd on port 1823?!!) port. Geniuses build appliances. Idiots build appliances. Your mileage may vary. But if you just assume "appliance == goodness" then you've been drinking too much marketing kool-ade. mjr. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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