Thank you to everyone that has responded to my message. I am on the site now and will
look it over.
AGAIN thank you.
Steven
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On 3/7/2000 at 12:18 AM Joe Knape wrote:
>Steven,
>
>You can find information for the brick at the url below...
>
>http://www.lucent.com/ins/products/managedfirewall.html
>
>cheers,
>.joe
>
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>From: Steven Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: John Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ashley Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Firewalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 4:37 PM
>Subject: Re: Bridge style firewalls - Lucent & Netscreen
>
>
>> John,
>>
>> I would assume that these are on lucant.com site? Or is there a different
>URL??
>>
>> Steven
>>
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>> On 3/6/2000 at 5:33 PM John Adams wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Ashley Culver wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I made an enquiry a little while back about F\W's with minimum impact
>on
>> >> installation - thanks to all who responded !
>> >>
>> >> Two products seem to stand out. The Lucent 'Brick', which acts as a
>bridge
>> >> rather than a router and the Netscreen-100, which has a 'transparent'
>mode.
>> >> The Lucent product seems pretty clear about itself. It bridges rather
>than
>> >
>> >The Brick has some noticeable advantages over most of the firewalls out
>> >there; you can go back in 'time' on the firewall and see all of the
>> >traffic that the firewall has passed ( great for IDS!), it's interfaces
>> >are seen as four independent interfaces (unlike the PIX which groups
>> >things into seperate, non duplicatable security levels) and it has the
>> >concept of a seperate management station, which runs in Java.
>> >
>> >Also, the brick itself runs a virtual machine, which the firewall code
>> >runs on top of (similiar to the Java VM, but developed by lucent
>expressly
>> >for the Brick)
>> >
>> >If our compnay hadn't been manhandled into buying the PIX by Cisco's
>> >smartstart program, I would have purchased about 8 of these boxes.
>They're
>> >great firewalls and they're so easy to admin.
>> >
>> >After running a collection of PIXes for the last few months I'm not
>> >pleased. The command structure is difficult to deal with, logging options
>> >are excessive (no filtering, etc) and it is difficult to admin a large
>> >collection of them at once. Lucent's management console gives you access
>> >to a number of bricks, over a secure encrypted interface.
>> >
>> >-john
>> >
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