Well, that would depend.... I would say that it should support the
following(Out of the box, without any addons....
1. Advanced NAT (One to one, One to many, And in todays world even NAT
based on service) Also, it Shouldn't be a problem to forward
services to
inside NON-Windows(Read Unix servers).
2. Decent logging and reporting
3. Various(Numerious forms of authentication) IE,
Skey, Secure-ID, Radius, Tacacs, etc...
4. Should provide some content filtering, Java, Active-X, etc..
5. Should provide a simple SMTP relay, or perhaps more advanced like
Checkpoint's
These are but a few... I could name more....
Centralized management/logging. The abitity to look at live connections...
VPN's, both client to network and network to network.
Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking MS Proxy.... It's a great proxy
server. I sometime recommend it, depending on the client's budget and
requirements... In most cases I recommend some form of caching proxy
server in addition to a normal firewall anyway. I just don't think that
"MS Proxy Server" is a Firewall. Microsoft probably doesn't either! If
they did, I am sure their marketing people would call it "Microsoft
Firewall"!!
--=Rick Hardy=--
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Brian Steele wrote:
> How many "firewall features" should a product have to be considered a
> firewall? (gd&r)
>
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtice Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Brian Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Wednesday, 13 January, 1999 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: OS Platform for firewall (...the answer is..)
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> >
> >While it is true that MS Proxy 2.0 outperformed Checkpoint in a test
> >situation, I would not call the results definitive as far as a performance
> >test. First I really don't consider MS Proxy 2.0 to be a Firewall; it has
> >SOME firewall features and that's about it.
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