Tristan Ball wrote:
> Bill Husler wrote:
> >
> > We have been asked to investigate Sun's Sunscreen firewall product
> > as a point solution, but are having problems finding any third party
> > review or reference customers at all. Is anyone using this product
> > (that would be willing to discuss it)? Can anyone point me in the
> > direction of a review that covers it?
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> I've had the great displeasure of using Sunscreen 2 here, and wouldn't
> recommend it in a fit.
> It's buggy (the java gui to configure it doubly so), unintuitive and
> awkward.
>
> There is a version 3 out tho, which is supposed to be better.
>
> A couple of notes. Most of the version 2 problems have to do with the
> NAT system and proxies. Basicly NAT is a huge pain it make it very easy
> to break things, often in ways that don't make sense - at least to me.
> It lacks basic features, like being able to specify whether or not to
> nat based on the destination address. The proxies are weak, for example
> the http proxy won't handle ftp, which is a pain if you want to use
> netscape/ie for ftp.
>
> The basic ip filters seem OK, but you'd kind of expect that. :-)
>
> For the price sun charge, I'd highly recommend looking elsewhere.
>
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> Tristan Ball
> Vision Systems
> System Administrator - Adelaide
> PH (08) 83004771
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I am using Sunscreen 3.0 and it is a much better product than version two.
The GUI is improved somewhat, still needs more improvement. More on
layout than function. The Proxies for ftp is now in the product. Has more
IP filters than before. I have had no problem using NAT or Proxies with
this version and the performance is very good. I still believe the product
needs more improvement in all area's specially on manuals and help files.
The documentation absolutely sucks, it seems they assume you have been
using this product for years although its just been released. The cost for
this product was less than Firewall-1, so I believe its competitive on price.
I would still Demo the product first, along with a few others and choose
the one you like best, specially for ease of use. If you don't know how to
use it the product just won't do anything for you. I like the firewall-1
product much better for ease of use. Good Luck hope this helps a little bit.
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Gary Currier
Network Systems Manager
Chrontel Inc.
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