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Hi All, On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:45, joshmccormack at travelersdiary dot com wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > > > Here is a commercial (not often discussed from what I've seen) product that > > does what I need: > > > > http://nct.symantecstore.com/0001/appliance_center.html > > > > All it has that mono doesn't (imho, and considering what I find useful) is > > the connection load balancing... > > It has an IDS. > It has dial-up backup > Lots of LEDs > > <snip> > > > > Currently one of my customers is using about 200 of those symantec units, > > with plans to expand... be nice to have a home rolled alternative. > > Does it have a way to centrally manage them all? Like http://www.fwbuilder.org > > <snip> > > I'm adding this to my comparison chart. Good commercial product to compare against (cheap & feature rich). I'm *really* not a fan of Symantec products. All their Windows-based software is serious bloatware, reduces system stability, and is questionable as to its seccess at its aims. NAV is not too bad at virus detection, but not the best by far (http://www.nod32.com/) and it is fooking HUGE. Almost as big as MS Office! Ghost, OTOH, is nice, but I only use its DOS app, I don't install the whole Windows deal - not needed. (I have also used Ghost since ver 1.0 - well before Symantec bought this from Ghostsoft in NZ.) Symantec Personal Firewall, and Symantec Internet Security are pathetic. Calling them security products is like calling a banana a ceiling tile. However, at the price of these units, I have been considering purchasing a Symantec Firewall/VPN 100 just to pull apart and see if I can get a decent OS on it. Does anyone know what's actually inside these boxes? -- Regards, Hilton Travis Email: Hilton at QuarkAV dot com Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Quark Computers Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.com/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |