From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 17:48: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ashram.rhavenn.net (ashram.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3814137B406 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:47:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (35871775fb018aac621fb54373395677@gandalf.rhavenn.net [209.150.195.51]) by ashram.rhavenn.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9V1o4l31631; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:50:04 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200110310150.f9V1o4l31631@ashram.rhavenn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Hudson Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net To: "Julian Morgan" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watchguard firewalls Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:55:06 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We ran Watchguards where I used to work and they are pretty cool and worked well for VPN purposes. They run a Linux kernel in them and are stable if kept updated, etc....my only real nitpick with them is that they can only log to a NT machine running their logging agent which was a bit annoying..i mean your running a Linux kernel, I am sure they could figure out some sort of syslog funcitionality, but I digress. Their config is simple and their support was decent and they worked better, IMHO, then the Cisco PIX's that replaced a few of them. As for BSD being to hard to stay on top of? Hogwash! Get your butt on security-announce@freebsd and friends and there ya have it. On Monday 29 October 2001 19:21, Julian Morgan wrote: >
in relation to a company quoting > that BSD is too hard to stay ontop of, regarding updating the OS with > security patches for an effective firewall, this company is instead quoting > us on watchguard 700 firebox firewalls, have any of you heard about these > thing, any bad comments....
 
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Sorry - the question is not totally related to BSD - but they are > trying to replace my 7 network BSD structure with these things - and have > given me neally no detail and I want to make sure it is a suitable product > for VPN firewall capabilities

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