RE: Elron Firewall
Ask your vendor to explain why every Elron firewall on the planet ground to a halt about four months ago because _all_ the license keys were generated incorrectly and all expired on the same day. Ask them what are they doing to make sure that doesn't happen again. Ask about the company's quality control practises. I know the problem that you're talking about, but your description is not very accurate at all. This happened around the beginning of the year, and the licenses didn't expire, the firewall had a built in drop-dead date (I think it was January 1 of this year). It didn't affect your firewall if you had installed it and licensed before this date, only if you installed and licensed it after this date. When I called their tech support because I couldn't license it, I was given the choice of an immediate workaround of changing the date on the system, licensing the software, changing the date back, or an updated version (2.5c) that was released within a couple of days of this problem being reported. It was a minor annoyance, and one which their tech support addressed immediately and professionally. Ask questions about scaleability, functionality, flexibility, time in the market-place, installed base, and how long the company is going to last in the market-place. I have their firewall, with NAT, VPN, etc, in use with a few hundred users, and haven't had any problems at all with performance. It's been very stable, easily configurable (and their tech support has been top-notch whenever I have had any problems or questions), and it seems to be a solid product that gives plenty of bang for the buck. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
RE: Elron Firewall
I' m looking for any comments, information, or experience that anyone would like to share about Elron firewall. I'd appreciate your support. Not a bad little firewall for entry-level, with nice 'firewalls for dummies' user interface. Only available for WinNT if I remember correctly, that might present stability and scaleability issues. Licensed/priced by 'head count' just like the 'bigger' firewalls. Ask your vendor to explain why every Elron firewall on the planet ground to a halt about four months ago because _all_ the license keys were generated incorrectly and all expired on the same day. Ask them what are they doing to make sure that doesn't happen again. Ask about the company's quality control practises. Ask questions about scaleability, functionality, flexibility, time in the market-place, installed base, and how long the company is going to last in the market-place. A reasonable product IMHO, secure enough for many applications, good for entry level. For my money, a 25 user Axent Raptor or Checkpoint Fireball-1 would give you more bang for your buck and an upgrade path but at the same time incrased overheads in education and installation if you're new to the game. HTH, Geoff -- CREDIT | FIRST Geoff Breach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +61293944040 SUISSE | BOSTON Global Network Services - Asia Pacific Engineering Opinions expressed herein are mine, not my employer's This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, and each of their subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of any such entity. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
RE: Elron Firewall
Could you elaborate on this? James Smith -Original Message- From: Nick Simicich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 February 1999 13:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Elron Firewall Has anyone heard of Elron Firewall before - seems quite cheap and supposed to be very easy to install. Unfortunately, it has to be administered by a special technician called a "Clear", using a user interface device called a "clay table". :-) -- Do I believe in the bible? Hell, man! I've seen one! Nick Simicich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (last choice) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World! - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
