Asking on this list is likely to get you mostly recommendations of Linux (iptables) based commercial firewalls. Iptables is, in every sense, a commercial firewall. Open source firewalls based on Linux and FreeBSD, as well as IDS's (snort, specifically) are rated very well, and are quite capable even compared to hardware based firewall products. In fact, I would probably choose an iptables based firewall for any situation where it was appropriate.
It becomes less appropriate when the amount of traffic to be firewalled approaches half the bandwidth of the PCI bus. Hardware firewalls tend to have much faster back planes. You can sometimes compensate for this by having more firewalls in front of smaller groups of networks/hosts. On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 05:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > thanks for your concern but thats what my client wants. > > odemba > > > Exactly my thoughts. > > > > If odemba wants, there are commercial front ends for IPtables, but I don't > > think they're necessary. > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Pieter De Wit wrote: > > > > > Why, what is wrong with ipchains/iptables ? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Keith Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: 14 March 2002 20:58 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: commercial firewall > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > i'm looking for a commercial firewall to run on redhat linux 7.1. any > > > > recommendations ? > > > > > > > > > Checkpoint's FW-1 might be an answer for you. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-list mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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