Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 01:22:03 -0700 From: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Check Point FW-1 Message-ID: <39DEDD2B.E5BF4463@allmaui.com> References: <200010070747.SAA26913@cairo.anu.edu.au>
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Thanks, They are going to put it on an NT machine. They don't trust ipfilter or anything else that is not commercial. Maybe I could get some suits to guarentee it with a corporate label. Craig Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Craig Cowen, sie said: > > > > The big cheeses at work want to use check point instead of ipf or any > > other open source solution. > > Can anybody help me with vunerabilities to this so that I can change > > thier minds? > > Tell them that IP Filter is the software which protects Firewall-1 from > the Internet when running on Solaris - you have to go with naked FW-1 on > NT. There are two factors to this equation, however. FW-1 is typically > deployed on Solaris/NT machines although now the Nokia box makes up a > large number of those sales. The Nokia boxes run IPSO which was, long > ago, FreeBSD (I'm told it no longer bears much resemblence). > > Darren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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