I believe the link _was_:
http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/pubs/a1fwall/
However it appears Mr. Ranum's homepage is kaput. Whether that's his or
Verio's doing, who knows anymore.
Since the URL isn't available, I'll give you a link which will give you
the same effect as visting the above page:
http://209.0.254.8/assets/prod/599/4493821.jpg
THAT is the ultimate firewall.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, daveo wrote:
> I hope I'm not being "sucked in" here but can somebody point me to more info
> on the 'ultimate firewall'
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: robert bonomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Best Firewall Product.
>
>
> > > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:10:25 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Best Firewall Product.
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > I'm looking for Firewall solutions, can somebody
> > > suggest me the best product and any comparision study
> > > of available products.
> > >
> >
> > The "best" firewall is, without question, mjr's "ultimate firewall".
> >
> > Simple, elegant, and as long as nobody sets up 'unapproved' routes that
> > go around it, absolutely effective.
> >
> > It would have blocked any and all of the recent spate of things like
> > "Melissa", and "I Love You" -- the only way any of those things could
> > have reached the protected network would be to have 'gone around' the
> > fire-wall, somehow/somewhere.
> >
> > I'm not sure about current pricing, last time I did have occasion to
> check,
> > it was _very_ reasonable.
> >
> > It's virtually fool-proof, requires hardly administration/managment, and
> > scales to protect _any_ size/speed of network.
> >
> > Best of all, it's a _completely_open_ archtecture.
> >
> > There's only one drawback -- the security policy it implements may be a
> bit
> > _too_ draconian for your taste.
> >
> >
> > Seriously, the 'best' firewall is the one that best meets your
> requirements
> > for implementning your security policy, on your network, with an
> acceptable
> > level of administrative workload, and a tolerable financial cost. It all
> > depends on _what_ you're protecting, what it's value is to others, and
> what
> > the cost of a 'disruption' of your normal operations would be. Since you
> > haven't provided any information on *ANY* of those areas, any attempt to
> > describe "what's best" for you will be a WAG, at *best*, by the person so
> > doing.
> >
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