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From: David Raistrick <drais@wow.atlasta.net>
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
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Subject: Re: firewall question
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Drew J. Weaver wrote:
> 
> > is a freebsd firewall as good as a "hardware" solution such as watchguard
> > fireboxes or Cisco products?

<clip>

> About the only thing some of the commercial boxes provide that FreeBSD
> doesn't is in-path virus and/or java filtering and sometimes caching or
> monitoring of internet usage.   

But all of this could be done..admitedly with more work involved.

...david


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david raistrick (deep in the south georgia woods)
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