RE: bridging enterprise hardware firewall

["Loomis, Rip" <GILBERT.R.LOOMIS () saic com>]

> I'm investigating various commercial firewall solutions for a client
> at the moment.  [[SNIP]] Ideally, we would still like
> to stick w/ a transparent bridging solution to avoid addressing and
> routing complications that would otherwise be introduced.  [[SNIP]]
>
> So basically my question is, what enterprise integrated firewall
> products are capable of similar functionality at this point?  

I've previously used Lucent's Model 201 brick and the Lucent Security
Management Software for work like this--there's now a family of
bricks and either the 201 or the 1000 looks like it might fit your
needs.  I didn't care for certain aspects of the previous LSMS
software (I'm told that they're fixed in newer versions) but the
hardware was reliable.  This is definitely not a cheap solution,
though.  Info is on Lucent's website--the URLs are useless to post
because of how they've structured things, but just do a search for
"201 brick" or "VPN firewall" and things should pop up.

HTH, and let me know off-list if you have more detailed questions
that the Lucent website and reps can't answer.  There were also
discussions on this topic on this list within the last 6 months--
you might check the archives if you haven't already.

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Rip Loomis                         Senior Systems Security Engineer
SAIC Secure Business Solutions Group         www.saic.com/securebiz
Center for Information Security Technology   www.cist-east.saic.com
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