Matt,
One area to consider is certification.
Both Gauntlet and Raptor have ICSA certification as would be expected.
See http://www.icsa.net/.
Gauntlet also has ITsec E3 certification, but only for V3.2 which is a little
long in the tooth now. Gauntlet V5 on NT is currently undergoing certification
but has not yet been awarded E3. See http://www.itsec.gov.uk/ for more
information about the ITsec certification process.
Regards,
Roy Hills
At 11:09 24/06/99 +0100, Matt Brock wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm going to be implementing a new firewall system in the near
>future, and I'd benefit from any advice that people on this list
>would be kind enough to give.
>
>I want to use a proxying firewall that is a good, solid, secure,
>tried-and-tested system, and my research has pretty much narrowed
>the choice down to Gauntlet and Raptor.
>
>I want to use Solaris as the OS platform, since I have no experience
>of other Unixes (except Linux), and I don't want to use NT because
>there are still questions surrounding its ability to be secure,
>in addition to which I don't like NT anyway due to the fact that
>it's unstable and bluescreens for no apparent reason, it doesn't
>have a very nice logging system, it doesn't allow you to telnet
>into it, and other such things.
>
>I haven't really been able to get a very clear picture as to
>whether I should go for Gauntlet or Raptor - I've downloaded
>the management console demos, and Raptor _appeared_ to be the
>most intuitive and configurable, but it isn't very easy to tell
>from that. Any experience from users would be much appreciated.
>
>Also, I would like to know if either of them will run on an
>Intel-based Solaris platform (I suspect the answer to that one
>is 'no')? What is the minimum hardware spec that I should be
>looking at for a 100-user version of both of these systems?
>
>Which one tends to be cheaper, and which one tends to
>be better for support and documentation?
>
>Any answers to these questions would be much appreciated, as
>would any general advice regarding the pros and cons of both
>systems.
>
>Regards,
>
>Matt
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