mmm yeah - I'd agree with that. As I've said before in countless emails on
here, the Sun hardware is supremely good at dealing with high bandwidth
situations. What I meant (and should have stressed, my bad) was that in any
vanilla firewall install situation NT/Sun/Nokia/Linux etc will do just fine.
When you're talking about big big bandwidth, then you're looking for a
tailored solution anyway. I don't know too much about Raptor, but FW-1 runs
just fine on NT, suitably patched etc. I haven't had any major problems with
FW-1 on NT, other than my incessant desire to type "ls" all the damn time.
But then, that just can't be helped. =)
Scott.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volker Tanger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:32 AM
> To: McMeekin, Scott; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [FW1] Evidence of NT security problems?
>
>
> *** Warning : This message originates from the Internet ***
>
> Greetings!
>
> "McMeekin, Scott" wrote:
>
> > NT is perfectly capable of serving as a firewall. Don't let the "my OS
> can
> > batter your OS" idiots confuse you. I've been a UNIX guy for years and
> > years, but even I have to say that NT and UNIX are similar from a
> security
> > perspective in one undeniable aspect: your system will only be as secure
> if
> > it is configured properly.
>
> Agreed. Wether firewall or standard office application, the old saying
> still is valid:
> In most cases the problem sits in front of the computer.. ;-)
>
> We encountered stability problems with NT in high network load situations,
> though. We used Raptor FW on NT (SP3), had crashes ~ a dozen times a day.
> Switching to a Sun box of similar price/performance (U60) solved all
> stability problems. I
> do not know anything (for better or worse) about this issue for CKP FW-1.
>
> Bye
> Volker << File: Card for Volker Tanger >>
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