Re: which firewall

From: Eirik Seim (eirik@mi.uib.no)
Date: 05/28/02 

From: eirik@mi.uib.no (Eirik Seim)
Date: 28 May 2002 08:34:12 GMT

On 27 May 2002 20:36:39 -0700, black wrote:
> Peter Larsen <plarsen@mail.tele.dk> wrote:

[snip]

> > > My company's web server is a Win 2K box, IIS, a few hundred
> > > to a few thousand hits a day. We're looking for a firewall
> > > product.
> >
> why doesn't anyone? recommend a dedicated network appliance firewall.
> there are several appliance firewall out in the market.
> one of the best is cisco pix a stateful packet inspection firewall
> unlike
> software based unix firewalls which is mainly a packet filter device.

You really should read up on pf, ipf, iptables and fw-1, to name a few.
They are all 'software based unix firewalls' with stateful packet
inspection. Actually, I think Checkpoint was the ones who invented that
buzzword.

- Eirik 

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