Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:00:03PM +0000, Keith A. Glass wrote:
...
> > As Paul said, TANSTAAFFW (there ain't no such thing as a free firewall)
> > - but what you spend and where and how differs from firewall to
> > firewall.
>
> Yes and no.  You CAN put up a decent firewalling solution using commodity computers, especially the 1-U units (Dell 
> 1700-series, HP Proliant DL360s, etc. . ) and either Linux, Solaris (now that it's free) or some flavor of BSD, and 
> the firewall of your choice.  I just wish some of the vendors would allow their FW solution to be available outside 
> the "appliance" vehicle (Yes, I'm talking about Symantec and Secure Computing. . .)
>
> When I was running the firewalls at SEC's EDGAR project, we used a mix of Gauntlets and FW-1, all running on various 
> flavors of Sun hardware, from old Ultra 5's and 10's to new SunFire 480's (we were in an upgrade cycle, 18 months 
> ago. . )
>
> Keith
> Merrily running systems at Fort Belvoir. . .

Keith, "commodity" hardware still isn't "free"; neither is recycled
hardware if there is some other possible use for it, or if its age
causes it to fail earlier than it would otherwise have.  TIS Gauntlet
and Check Point Firewall-1 still cost something, last I checked [and
last Gauntlet was available].  And I don't THINK you were donating your
labour to put together even the free-software packages, eh?  This is
what I meant, and inferred from Paul's comment, about TANSTAAFFW.

[In all of the above, "free" is intended as in "free beer".]

-- 
Joe Yao
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