Re: RadGuard filter techology type?

[Dani Arbel <darbel () techunix technion ac il>]

Hi!
The RadGuard VPN boxes may be used as FireWall as well with s/w additin.
(I have been told so by Rad people, have not tested it myself).
Dani

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Technical Incursion Countermeasures wrote:

> Have a situation where a client is using a pair of Radguard boxes to
> provide a firewall solution. They are set up as follows:
>
> internet --- radguard 1 ---DMZ---radguard 2 --- internal network
>
> > From what I've seen at Radguard's site the boxs seem to be primarily
> intended as a VPN endpoint (which the client is also using them for) and
> the packet filtering seems to be the plain vanilla type, no statefulness
> involved.
>
> My question.. does anyone know details on these boxs? and what is the
> list's opinion on their effectivness as a firewall as compared to something
> like FW-1 /Guantlet?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bret
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