Re: pix vs. ios firewall feature set

["avraham shir-el (arthur sherman)" <avraham () jct ac il>]

come now brian. i assume we've all been in the business for a while.
i happen to be a loyal cisco user since the cgs router.
but...
let's not denigrate the value of comments from a user forum.
please recall too-
i 1st spoke to cisco, then the user forum.
i certainly had no intention of flaming, and none of the responses
posted here even hinted of it either.
-tnx
ams
    > FROM - Brian Ford <brford () cisco com>
    > WHEN - 3 June 2003, 13:35
    > SUBJ - Re: [fw-wiz] pix vs. ios firewall feature set
    > TO   - avraham () jct ac il, firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
    > 
    > AMS,
    > 
    > I'm a bit confused.
    > 
    > You would like to hear the comments of some number of total, anonymous 
    > strangers who happen to subscribe to this list rather than listen to "a 
    > cisco engineer"?  Wouldn't it make more sense to try and confirm 
    > information like this through your normal Cisco sales and support channels?
    > 
    > My only comments are that your note seems like flame bait and I question 
    > the logic of trying to determine vendor strategy from messages on an open, 
    > anonymous mail list.
    > 
    > Liberty for All,
    > 
    > Brian
    > 
    > At 12:00 PM 6/1/2003 -0400, firewall-wizards-request () honor icsalabs com wrote:
    > 
    > >Message: 3
    > >Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 00:32:42 +0300
    > >From: "avraham shir-el (arthur sherman)" <avraham () jct ac il>
    > >To: firewall-wizards () icsalabs com
    > >Reply-To: avraham () jct ac il
    > >Subject: [fw-wiz] pix vs. ios firewall feature set
    > >
    > >
    > >gentlemen:
    > >a cisco engineer recently told me that the plan for the above 2
    > >products is %100 feature convergence and that currently, there's
    > >about %80 of the features of pix present in the ios firewall feature
    > >set.
    > >any comments as to the reality of the above?
    > >
    > >tnx
    > >ams
    > >avraham shir-el
    > >director of computing center
    > >jerusalem college of technology - machon lev
    > >p. 972-2-675-1163
    > 
    > 
    > Brian Ford
    > Consulting Engineer
    > Corporate Consulting Engineering, Office of the Chief Technology Officer
    > Cisco Systems, Inc.
    > http://www.cisco.com
    > e-mail: brford () cisco com
    > 
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