RE: IBM firewall for AIX

["Abe L. Getchell" <abegetchell () insightbb com>]

Hi Skip,
        I believe he's referring to the actual "IBM firewall software"
that runs on AIX.  I'm not sure what it's called, or if it's even still
being developed, but I haven't seen any of it out there.  At a client's
site, we ran Firewall-1 on AIX for a while.  When IBM first came in to
discuss the design of the system with us, they pitched their product to
us first, but backed off pretty quickly.  I know that IBM had a
partnership with Checkpoint for a while, but broke that off because they
wanted to try and sell more of their "IBM firewall software" running on
their AIX boxes. <shrug>

Thanks,
Abe

--
Abe L. Getchell
Security Engineer
abegetchell () qx net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com 
> [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com] On Behalf Of Skip Frizzell
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:08 PM
> To: gattaca () hushmail com; firewall-wizards () nfr com
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] IBM firewall for AIX
>
>
> You don't say what kind of firewall you are running on AIX. 
> As for the AIX machines themselves, it has been my experience 
> that AIX is a rock solid UNIX platform. Were you going to 
> training for AIX, or for the Firewall? A bit more detail 
> might help us point you in the right direction. For the AIX 
> novice (and to a large extent the AIX pro) smit is the 
> utility that will allow you to do most anything to configure 
> AIX. what is it that makes you think these boxes might be 
> over the hill? also what version of AIX are they running? are 
> they no longer doing the job?
>
> Sorry that I'm asking more questions than providing answers. 
> I'm trying to steer you in the right direction. Here are two 
> things that will help you at least a little:
>
> the smit command is your friend.
>
>     and
>
> http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/Portals/UNIX
>
>     -=Skip
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <gattaca () hushmail com>
> To: <firewall-wizards () nfr com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:25 AM
> Subject: [fw-wiz] IBM firewall for AIX
>
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> > Hello all,
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> > I'm currently working on a client site where they have a few IBM 
> > firewalls
> on AIX. Admittedly this is the first time I've come across 
> them and I was going to attend a training course in Dallas. 
> The rub is that the course was cancelled due to a lack of 
> enrollment. Further to this end I have not been able to find 
> anyone who has worked on these machines before. Now, my 
> question. Does anyone out there still use these machines? 
> Does anyone have an opinion that they would be willing to 
> share either pro or con? I'm just worried that these machines 
> have out-lived themselves. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
> > cheers,
> > gattaca
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