Fucking useless kerio firewall

From: John (john_at_john.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:21:40 GMT

OK, using the 4.0.7 personal firewall. Symantec just pisses me off,
TPF just is too much of a pain in the ass since it never tells me when
something is trying to get out, so I have to wait to see everything
that fails (such as proprietary VPN *** from various clients). Zone
Alarm never ceased to drive me nuts.

So I decided to give Kerio Personal Firewall a try. So I have a VPN
tunnel working to my work network (granted, even with all the rules,
the only way to actually get the VPN tunnel established is to disable
Kerio - then once I ping an internal IP on my remote network to bring
up the VPN tunnel, I can re-enable Kerio again and all works fine,
ping, etc... But it'll NEVER start without killing the firewall
first). So I get the connectivity to my work network going (I have
trusted networks set up with both the internal IP of my work network
as well as the external IP's of my netork) and I fire up MS Outlook to
connect to my exchange server. now, with Symantec Firewall, if I had
the 172.16.x.x range in my "trusted", as well as my external range, I
never had an issue. But with fucking Kerio, even having both the
internal and the external ranges set up (so that first, the VPN tunnel
can connect to my external address of my firewall at work and the
internal addresses will work for exchange) it still fails. Like I
said, I can't even ping (though ping is allowed out anywhere) until I
kill the firewall to establish the VPN. Then the VPN comes up, and I
can re-establish the firewall and the VPN stays up (so evidently I
have the right rules there, otherwise it would fail again once I
restart the firewall). Fucking Exchange gives me about 12 or 15
fucking prompts for everything from the firewall to allow or deny even
though the IP it's getting at is on a fucking TRUSTED NETWORK.

I'm so fucking fed up with all these piece of *** little personal
firewall pseudo programs. I'm so accustomed to actual VPN appliances
(even a piece of *** sonicwall is better than this ***) that I just
don't have the patience anymore for these fucking software abortions
that these people call programs.... Anyone have anything that works
the way it *should* (i.e. I say x.x.x.x to x.x.x.x is trusted, it
won't fucking ASK me a dozen times for something going to that allowed
range)?

Thanks from a fed up end user.

J

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