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RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres
From: "Behm, Jeffrey L." <BehmJL () bvsg com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:02:23 -0600
From Eugene KuznetsovOf Keith A. GlassI 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. . .)Hmm, this is pretty interesting, because it's contrary to what I hear elsewhere. Could you talk about why you would rather get software
instead of
a sealed appliance -- ignoring, for the time being, the cases where the
Before MJR can chime in (with the same, time-tested-true answer each time)... It's *all* software at some point...how it's packaged is somewhat unimportant, although I'll take a command line interface, where I can get into the guts and make changes, improvements, or tailoring to fit my environment over a point-click-and-hope interface and "sealed" appliance that either fits in my environment or it doesn't. Why pay for the seck-sy, pretty "appliance," if you don't have to? (Other than because some vendor has the ear of mgmt) _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres, (continued)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Eugene Kuznetsov (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Jim Seymour (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Hurst, Dave (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Behm, Jeffrey L. (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres MHawkins (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
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- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Marcus J. Ranum (Jan 29)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Keith A. Glass (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres MHawkins (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- Re: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Joseph S D Yao (Jan 29)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Hurst, Dave (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres R. DuFresne (Jan 29)
- RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres Paul D. Robertson (Jan 28)