Hi.
I'm going to be implementing a new firewall system in the near
future, and I'd benefit from any advice that people on this list
would be kind enough to give.
I want to use a proxying firewall that is a good, solid, secure,
tried-and-tested system, and my research has pretty much narrowed
the choice down to Gauntlet and Raptor.
I want to use Solaris as the OS platform, since I have no experience
of other Unixes (except Linux), and I don't want to use NT because
there are still questions surrounding its ability to be secure,
in addition to which I don't like NT anyway due to the fact that
it's unstable and bluescreens for no apparent reason, it doesn't
have a very nice logging system, it doesn't allow you to telnet
into it, and other such things.
I haven't really been able to get a very clear picture as to
whether I should go for Gauntlet or Raptor - I've downloaded
the management console demos, and Raptor _appeared_ to be the
most intuitive and configurable, but it isn't very easy to tell
from that. Any experience from users would be much appreciated.
Also, I would like to know if either of them will run on an
Intel-based Solaris platform (I suspect the answer to that one
is 'no')? What is the minimum hardware spec that I should be
looking at for a 100-user version of both of these systems?
Which one tends to be cheaper, and which one tends to
be better for support and documentation?
Any answers to these questions would be much appreciated, as
would any general advice regarding the pros and cons of both
systems.
Regards,
Matt
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Matt Brock, System Administrator, IPD
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