Is anyone using the Foundry ServerIrons? I hear they are much cheaper than
their Alteon and Radware counterparts, but I'm worried I might get what I
pay for.
Mark Ingles
At 09:36 PM 5/22/00 , Jack Coates wrote:
>Hi Cedric,
>
>Thanks for the reply. I agree that the L4 appliances will do a good job,
>I'm particularly impressed by Alteon and Radware. Of course I hate to
>see you buy them since they are the competition :-)
>
>VLAN'ing for security is an interesting concept, but it's always made me
>nervous because of the potential for accidental misconfiguration or a
>hack against the switch itself (e.g. the recent Cisco buffer overflow
>mentioned on bugtraq). If the switch security is ever comprised, you
>might as well not have a firewall between the VLAN'd nets. To each his
>own, of course.
>
>Thanks again,
>Jack
>
>
>Cedric Amand wrote:
> >
> > Hello Jack,
> >
> > JC> Hardware boxes will be fast and will do a good job of load-balancing.
> > JC> They'll also be expensive because they need to go all over the place
> > JC> (sandwiching in multiple dimensions).
><snip>
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