On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:30:55AM -0800, Rick Shepherd wrote: > available in ISO format for installation on most distros. Have any of > you ever heard of/used this software? I know there are a dozen
I have. I evaluated it a year or two ago for a client. At the time, it was functional and reasonably easy to use, but not really ready for the large enterprise environment. I don't know of any reason, other than licensing costs, not to at least investigate it further if you aren't planning to put it into a multi-national corporation's core infrastructure. The problem with firewall products as a class is that the easier they are to use, the harder they are to configure for complex environments. Sidewinder is a great example; it's a solid product with a good track record, but it's firmly aimed at the small business environment in terms of configurability. The biggest problem with Linux as an enterprise-class firewall is that it doesn't really support high-availability state tables. Astaro may have some proprietary features in that regard (I vaguely remembering that it was on their TODO list), but I can't say for sure. But again, if you don't need that functionality, Astaro or IPCop may be more than sufficient. SuSE used to sell a good firewall product, too: it ran from CD-ROM with a floppy-based config. If Novell kept it in production, that might be a good choice, too. -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
