Re: [PEN-TEST] Nortel Contivity Extranet Switches

["van der Kooij, Hugo" <Hugo.van.der.Kooij () CAIW NL>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Ogle Ron (Rennes) wrote:

> We are testing the Nortel Contivity switch.  Nortel advertises that this
> switch is a firewall and should be placed in parallel with your other
> firewalls.  I know that you can install CheckPoint Firewall-1 on the switch,
> but the Nortel representative says that there are problems with this type of
> install.  I haven't been able to find any evidence that this product has
> been independently tested for security weaknesses.

Pardon me but isn't the firewall code a bit outdated and limited? AFAIK
support for this type of installation was dropped halfway FireWall-1 v3.0b
and I wouldn't recommend using it. (The only time we did we found it a
major pain to install and manage.)

Hugo.

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