On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's a firewall appliance, made by NetScreen (www.netscreen.com).
Oh.
> 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-
Can you give an example of:
1) Good/BAD firewall appliances
2) Good/BAD software firewalls
> 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.]
Oh ok that makes sense. I never heard of any mainframes being
cracked into. Can we take some lessons from mainframe OS design
and apply to *NIX/Win32 world?
> > $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?
Hmm not sure. Because all those CPU cycles would be wasted?
Zach
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