Re: firewalls<little bit of a rant, no flaming though>

[Sickchef <sickchef@hawaii.rr.com>]

Today I went to a technology expo in Honolulu and asked every security, 
firewall and ids vendor, "Are there plans to port your product to *BSD, 
specifically OpenBSD?"  Most facial reponses were in the , "Hrm, what is 
this OpenBSD stuff this guy talking about?"  I told them, myself and 
probably many others would be more likely to use their product if it 
were.  One well known firewall vendor asked me who made openbsd and does 
it run on NT!!  All I could do was point them to openbsd.org and hoped 
they would figure it out for themselves.  My guess is that their sales 
people are not technically knowledgeable.  While it's not their job to 
be a tech expert, just a salesperson, it's still kind of baffling to 
me.  For your question I cannot answer however you could point them to 
http://www.openbsd.org/users.html  It could give you a little less of a 
battle, since some users are well known companies, granted not all of 
them are using them for firewalls. 

Nicholas Basila wrote:

> We are evaluating firewalls at work. I was wondering if anyone had a
> link to a site that gives an honest evaluation of commercial products,
> and firewalls using ipf. I'd love to see a site that rates an OpenBSD
> box with ipf a better "buy"  than, say, Checkpoint or some other
> firewall. If I can't provide some sort of online justification for using
> OpenBSD and ipf, I'll probably end up having to go with some NT based
> firewall to make management happy. Does anyone know a good site for such
> things?
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> Nicholas
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