It's a firewall appliance, made by NetScreen (www.netscreen.com).
Different people have different preferences for firewall appliances
versus running software firewalls on general-purpose hardware. [I do
not claim there are no bad appliances, and I'll even concede that
deploying an appliance firewall badly is no harder than deploying a
software firewall badly. I *do* believe that good appliances exist,
that they can be configured and deployed well, and that general-
purpose hardware and OSes include inherent capabilities and features
that (a) are not necessary to the firewall task and (b) provide
additional opportunities for compromise.]
On 7 Jun 2001, at 18:12, Zachary Uram wrote:
> what is a Netscreen 10?
>
> $1,000 i could buy a 1 Ghz Pentium machine (sans monitor) loaded up
> :)
Do you understand why this machine would be a porr basis for a
firewall?
David Gillett
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