Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:48:46 +1000 From: "Julian Morgan" <jmorganmcse@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: REQUEST FOR COMMENT Message-ID: <F69p8eurQQtHT1DdQcp000011ad@hotmail.com>
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<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>people - I am very dissappointed here and wanted your opinions.. I have helped set up a 7 site VPN between 2 states in Australia. </DIV>4 sites in Melbourne and 3 in Sydney.. The firewalls are running FreeBSD4.3 and communicate with Cisco 827 routes on ADSL 2meg/386K... <DIV></DIV>After setting all this up and starting a fresh in learning FreeBSD over the past 8 months while the system has been running, we have had some crew question the overall <DIV></DIV>effectiveness of security and other issues.. As a result they believe that it is better to get some certified hardware firewall that provider upgrades patches, instead of having <DIV></DIV>a Unix product which is open source and requires patches all the time, updates ontop of the usual monitoring, and dedicate a person to basically be ontop of all seven sites all the <DIV></DIV>time.... <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>So besides the ISP sucking a little - it means we are going to have to upgrade the whole VPN system - and tear out the BSD boxes and get some hardware firewall!!!!!!!! <DIV></DIV>hmm yet to see the doco on this equiptment... <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>just wondered what your thoughts were <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Regards <DIV></DIV>Julian</div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></html>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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