On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, David Lang wrote:
> actually we are not that small a company as far as firewalls are
> concened. As our network was designed while using linux firewalls it was
*snip*
> misconfigurations to connect the two) and as a result we have over 20
> firewalls through our networks. I looked at the "enterprise
*snip*
Well, the other customers in the room of the last meeting I was in were
talking about managing 300-1500 firewalls centrally. I gasped in horror,
then shug up- that doesn't match my paranoia model at all.
> throughout) and found that all they really do is put all the configs on
> one box, each one really does need to be managed independantly.
That, I belive was their main gripe. I don't do appliance firewalls, so I
was mostly quiet for that part of the meeting.
> Raptor now has some sort of checksum on the files to make it harder to do
> that. it can probably still be done, but i have not had the time yet to
> track it down.
Typically, there's a script to re-generate checksums on the few commercial
firewalls I've seen with them - but I don't recall picking Raptor apart
that much.
Paul
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