RE: Watchguard Firebox firewalls

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "CHRIS GRABENSTEIN" <LFGRABC () LF VCCS EDU>
> I manage two Firebox 1000s.  I'm not particularly impressed with it (the
> rules aren't granular enough for my tastes), but that's what my boss 
> bought.
> It can detect port scans/ping scans/etc. and dynamically block IPs.  It has
> some built-in proxies to strip out some less-desirable content.
>
> It gets the job done, but maybe not as well as other products can.  I 
> watched
> the console port once a long while back and it's just a Linux box in a 
> bright
> red case.  I believe it was running a 2.0 kernel.  It may have been 2.2, 
> but
> I don't think so.
>
> Smoothwall (smoothwall.org) looks very nice and is free, but I've only 
> toyed
> with it a little.  Does anyone know how well it's suited for a production
> network?

I use IPCOP which is a fork of smoothwall, and it works great for us.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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