I too have experience with both. I tend to avoid them when possible.
Neither company is network security company. Leave firewalls to the
firewall folks. I have not worked directly with BM 3.0, but 2.0 is a
screening router with 1 application proxy. I was amazed at how many
patches would break things fixed in previous patches (or things there
never were broken). It's cacheing speed is nice, but again, I would not
consider it a real firewall. We had stability problems as well.
MS Proxy is even less appealing to me. I don't like the idea of having to
install a client on all machines on my network just so they can do more
than http. I also don't care for the way Proxy sits on IIS, sits on NT.
ONe component breaks and you get a house of cards effect. Even when
running this at small sites it requires too much damned baby sitting.
Go with FireWall-1 on a Nokia box. You won't regret it. =)
Carric Dooley
COM2:Interactive Media
http://www.com2usa.com
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Roberto Sixtos Auces wrote:
> Michael, I have been some experience with both products, in my particular
> opinion Novell border manager is better than Microsoft proxy.
>
> Border Manager offers , NAT,block sites with Cyber Patrol, cache, and filter
> ports, and is a firewall certified.
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>
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> Subject: Reviews of Proxy 2 and Bordermanager
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>
> Does anyone know of some reviews for either Microsoft Proxy 2.0 and/or
> Novell Border Manager acting as a firewall to the Internet?
>
> The reviews I have seen tend to focus on your more traditional products
> such as Firewall-1, Raptor, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michael
>
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