Yes, I have experience with the brick. It's basically a circuit layer
gate with some limited proxy functions (http and smtp) thrown into a firewall
appliance design.
It has 4 ethernet interfaces and will take an optional VPN accelerator
card, supports client tunnels as well as lan to lan tunnels. The
provided IPSec client software only runs on Windows/NT/2000, though
you can configure TEPs on Lucent's Superpipe/Pipeline router series.
The management GUI (NT or Solaris) is pretty easy to use, and there
are remote administration features, which work pretty well.
If you don't need a full featured heavy duty FW like Check Point on
Nokia, or are looking for something a bit easier to use, the brick
should work just fine. Cost wise it's not any bargin, list is about
$20K, which is compareable with a good Nokia box.
Some things to note. The 201 is a significant improvemnet over the
200, and LSMS version 5 is likewise way beyond version 4.01.
Glenn
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wnaf> Has anyone ever used the Lucent Brick 201 firewall, can you tell me what you
wnaf> think of it?
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