Re: firewalls

["Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:37:04PM -0500, 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?

A little off topic but...

If you end up having to go towards a commercial solution like
Checkpoint, have a look at the Nokia boxes. They run a stripped down
and hardened version of FreeBSD under FW-1. From all that I have
heard, if you are going to go FW-1, these little puppies are the way
to go. (So you know, I'm stuck dealing with FW-1 on Slowlaris boxes at
the office.)
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu