On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Jason Witty wrote:
> Additionally, Guantlet Firewall itself is built on the freeware package
> "fw-tk", which is still available for free. All they did is add a few
> (albeit nice) features and change the name, for the most part. Just my
> $.02.
This hasn't been true for a while. For instance, the current
version has the http-pdk code as the 'preferred' HTTP proxy, while
http-gw's code is still included and had the advantage of the "crystal
box" approach if you run the fwtk version, I don't believe even the old
TIS code was identical to the toolkit at the last itteration (2.0 for the
toolkit - not sure what the last Gauntlet version was prior to NAI
taking over.)
Checkpoint's historical record has been about the same as NAI's - so it
really *should* be about security policy applicability not "pick a vendor
then find a security policy that applies." Both solutions have strengths
and weaknesses by their designs.
Paul
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