Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor

["Cheryl Goh" <cherylgoh () elock com my>]

A hardware firewall will typically run off an ASIC chip and will not have a
hard disk. Examples of a hardware firewall would be Netscreen. Watchguard
however is a hybrid firewall. It uses a combination of an ASIC chip and
software.

An appliance firewall is defined as a firewall that comes with an appliance.
These appliances are often "pc's in a box" that have a hard disk, cpu ram
etc. A example of an appliance firewall is the Cyberguard. These firewalls
often provide the option of RAID to reduce the chances of a single hard disk
failure.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stadler, Brian T" <bstadler () ukans edu>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:46 AM
Subject: RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor


> I kind of caught the middle of the thread, but wouldn't an appliance box
not
> use a Hard Drive.  Something more along the lines of Non-Volatile memory,
> like the PIX.
>
> I'm not opposed to Firewalls having Hard Drives, I run many like that
> myself.  But, if you are going to install a firewall in front of a large
> network, where the firewall is the only way out, I'd want the least amount
> of moving parts in that device.
>
> Just a thought is all.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Bradd [mailto:wbradd () comcast net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: Stadler, Brian T; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor
>
>
> Why, most firewalls have HD's.
>
>
>
> At 04:28 PM 3/18/2003 -0600, Stadler, Brian T wrote:
> > There's a hard drive in the box?  If so that is scary.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SimonChan () lifeisgreat com sg [mailto:SimonChan () lifeisgreat com sg]
> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:15 PM
> > To: Ted Frederick
> > Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Re: Cisco Pix Vs. Symantec Velociraptor
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Ted,
> >
> > what are u interested in finding out ?
> >
> > I was at a Symantec Demo and this is what I see:
> > * appliance based
> > * setup is done using symantec ghost which creates an image on the
> > appliance harddisk
> > * There 's a front panel, where u used to set IP address, password
> > * the managment's station Mac/Ip address is noted by the box, so choose
the
> > managment station carefully.
> > * gui-based managment
> >
> >
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
> > Simon
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> > -
> >
> > "My statements in this message are personal opinions
> > which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."


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