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Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG
From: Tony Miedaner <miedaner () twcny rr com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:41:35 -0400
Several years ago I asked the question of what and everything that CP kept state on and got up the ladder to some engineer in New York. They told me it was proprietary.
At 09:18 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
A fancy proxy.Three different people from Check Point wrote me in response to a recent column of mine, basically asking me if I had heard of this new feature.I replied with a brief history. In short: Firewall-1 comes on the scene, most FW1 users implement it with modules from the TIS FWTK (for adding user authentication to FTP and TELNET), Check Point's marketing says proxies are old technology, stateful inspection is the next generation of firewall technology (before the term became a product name), people persisted in using proxies, CP added "security servers" (proxies by another name), and now this.I asked them, how is this different from application gateways (security proxies). I applaud the addition of them (like there are other hybrid firewalls). But none of the three folks from CP replied to me.I have no agenda, except the truth. (Boy, is this guy noble, or what? :-)) I'd like to know the answer to this: How this is different than application gateways (if it is), and why is it better than Sidewinder, Firebox, Raptor, et al.Fred Avolio Consulting, Inc. 16228 Frederick Road, PO Box 609, Lisbon, MD 21765, US +1 410-309-6910 (voice) +1 410-309-6911 (fax) http://www.avolio.com/ PGP Key Fingerprint: 928D 0903 934F 8CFA 6124 BBF6 0B45 93C7 3521 CEA0 _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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Current thread:
- Application Intelligent vs ALG SimonChan (Jun 22)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Frederick M Avolio (Jun 23)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Tony Miedaner (Jun 24)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Shimon Silberschlag (Jun 24)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Adam Shostack (Jun 25)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Volker Tanger (Jun 24)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG ark (Jun 25)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Rama krishna prasad (Jun 25)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Tony Miedaner (Jun 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG SimonChan (Jun 27)
- Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG Frederick M Avolio (Jun 23)