RE: Will you try to sue Bill for false advertising? -Reply

[Joe Ippolito <joe () joesnet com>]

Yes, it pretty much does everything Firewall-1 does (and caching) at a 
fraction of the price. VPN is a separate piece and remote management must 
be done from NT etc. Granted it is not nearly as mature a product as 
Firewall-1,  But, after using Firewall-1 on NT and seeing all the GP 
faults, connectivity issues and the vaporware they call CVP I think that 
Firewall-1 on NT has a long way to go.  I wish now I had purchased the Unix 
version.

The person that wants to do other traffic besides http needs to configure 
Winsock proxy and install the Winsock proxy client.  If it is not an MS OS, 
he/she will need to configure the socks proxy.

Joe Ippolito
MCNE, MCSE, CSE


-----Original Message-----
From:   Michelle Jansen [SMTP:michelle.jansen () corporate wesfarmers com au]
Sent:   Thursday, March 12, 1998 12:00 AM
To:     joe () joesnet com
Subject:        Will you try to sue Bill for false advertising? -Reply

Joe

I sure hope you don't really think Microsoft proxy does all the things your
Firewall-1 does?  I know someone trying to use Microsoft proxy 2.0 as a
firewall and they can't even get it to allow traffic other than web stuff
through.  It is probably possible but just not straight forward.  The
interesting thing is that the person who has tried to configure it is an
MCNE.

Cheers

Michelle

> > > "Joe Ippolito - President SVNPA" <joe () joesnet com> 12/March/1998
02:05am >>>
You wrote:

I'd be very careful refering to MS Proxy Server as a "firewall"...

Regards

Christopher


See http://www.microsoft.com/proxy/  for details.  Here are some
excerpts:

New in security - extensible firewall!
Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 has a number of new security features that
further enable Microsoft Proxy Server to be used as a firewall. New
security features include:
* Dynamic Packet Filtering
* Reverse Proxy/Virtual Hosting
* Server Proxying
* Real-time Alerts and Logging
* VPN Support
Plus, Microsoft Proxy Server is extensible, allowing customers to benefit
from products developed to work with and complement its security
features.
These products include virus scanning, content filtering, reporting, and
traditional firewalls.


And the best thing about it is it only costs $999.  I wish I could get my
$20+K back from Check Point!