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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
From: Joe <js.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:51:14 -0800
Litigation? Wow. To answer the OP: Any of the Cisco, Juniper, Sonic, Fortinet, etc can be easy to use to maintain. But I'd make sure you have a good understanding of what you intend to do, and what products will satisfy your needs. Demo's are a good idea. One person's definition of easy may not match someone else's. If you know what you're doing and want to roll your own, then go with what you're most comfortable with (linux, bad, etc). Your subject indicates you aren't comfortable with rolling your own, so there is no point to the side debate going on in this thread. Side point: For what it's worth, I use PF on OpenBSD because I like the clean and easy to read syntax. To me, that is *easier* to use, than trying to figure out some point-click GUI. The take away from this is, "what does ease of use mean to you"? Hope that helps.
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- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?, (continued)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jimmy Hess (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Peter Kristolaitis (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jack Bates (Nov 10)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jones, Barry (Nov 11)
- Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Leo Bicknell (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)