RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres

[jseymour () linxnet com (Jim Seymour)]

"Eugene Kuznetsov" <eugene () datapower com> wrote:
> > Of Keith A. Glass
>
> > 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. . .)
>
> Hmm, this is pretty interesting, because it's contrary to what I hear
> elsewhere. 

Where is this "elsewhere?"  Because, in the circles in which *I*
travel--marginally- to very-experienced admins--not a one of 'em wants
a sealed black-box solution that needs a proprietary 'doze-based
point-n-drool GUI "admin" tool.

>            Could you talk about why you would rather get software instead of
> a sealed appliance -- 
[snip]

For many of the same reasons I prefer Unix over Windows.  For many of
the same reasons I prefer *open* standards over vendor-specific
so-called "standards." For many of the same reasons I prefer open
source to closed source.  They all boil down to choice and
flexibility.

Regards,
Jim
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