Bill Husler wrote:
>
> We have been asked to investigate Sun's Sunscreen firewall product
> as a point solution, but are having problems finding any third party
> review or reference customers at all. Is anyone using this product
> (that would be willing to discuss it)? Can anyone point me in the
> direction of a review that covers it?
> Thanks in advance,
I've had the great displeasure of using Sunscreen 2 here, and wouldn't
recommend it in a fit.
It's buggy (the java gui to configure it doubly so), unintuitive and
awkward.
There is a version 3 out tho, which is supposed to be better.
A couple of notes. Most of the version 2 problems have to do with the
NAT system and proxies. Basicly NAT is a huge pain it make it very easy
to break things, often in ways that don't make sense - at least to me.
It lacks basic features, like being able to specify whether or not to
nat based on the destination address. The proxies are weak, for example
the http proxy won't handle ftp, which is a pain if you want to use
netscape/ie for ftp.
The basic ip filters seem OK, but you'd kind of expect that. :-)
For the price sun charge, I'd highly recommend looking elsewhere.
--
Tristan Ball
Vision Systems
System Administrator - Adelaide
PH (08) 83004771
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