> Why is that so surprising? I've been doing it for > years, using NAT, > hooked up to an old Cayman DSL router. > Quite a few other people I know also run IPfilter on > Solaris as their > firewall.
Count me brainwashed from living in this country -- like I always say "we ain't in Kansas any more Dorothy". The "christmas tree experts" here don't even want to hear about running an enterprise grade firewall on anything but an appliance, much less Solaris. When I was interviewing for a job in one of my previous lives -- a CheckPoint job (I'm also a CCSE) -- I didn't get the job because I mentioned that I used to run CheckPoint on Solaris, not that I was sure I wanted it after what they've told me. And what they did tell me was that Solaris "has a lot of problems" to which I replied that I never had a problem with it because I know my way around Solaris. One could just see their eyes pop and their hair stand up on their heads; it was pathetic (it's a faux-pas to say you didn't have a problem with something in IT here, screwed up people). My would-be team-mates mentioned they still had one or two "old Solaris firewalls" that they were going to phase out in favor of CheckPoint on IPSO NOKIA. Absolutely horrible. For as long as I've been here, except for myself, I've never seen or heard of *anyone* running a firewall on Solaris. What a strange, strange country. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
