Actually, the Cisco Pix firewall is not 100% command line interface. It has a very nice GUI interface that can be used as well.
-Matt On Sunday 18 November 2001 12:26, Roger Bou Aoun wrote: > Well according to my experience, if you want quality and something easy > to use with a nice Graphical User Interface have a look @ netssreen > firewalls (http://www.netscreen.com) if u want to complicate your life > go to cisco they 100% command line interface and very expensive, + it is > targeted by the attackers and it routes, as for the watchguard firewall > it have a huge history in vulnerability and his ACL needs to restart the > firewall every time you change it or add something to it, as for the > sonic wall well if u want to use VPN then 4get about it, it have a bug > discovered in the 28 of march 2001 in the IKE key. > > > If u want my choice go to netscreen, cheap, reliable and not targeted > and the vpn comes built in the 5, 25 series by default > > > Plz note that m cisco certified and currently doing my ccie in security > and voice over ip > > Regards, > > > ,,, > /'^'\ > ( o o ) > oOOO--(_)--OOOo---------------------- > > Roger Bou Aoun > Senior Security Specialist > > Data Management - Lebanon > Internet Service Provide > AL Ghazal Tower, 9TH Floor > Tel: + 961 1 337 001 ext 202 > Fax: + 961 1 218 889 Mobile: + 961 3 843 155 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *************************** End of Message **************************** > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: leon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: What firewall? > > The leaders in the industry are usually thought of as Cisco Pix > (www.cisco.com) and Checkpoint (www.checkpoint.com) Sonicwall can do > what you ask and has a very pretty gui (www.sonicwall.com) > > HTH, > > Leon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What firewall? > > > Hi! > > I\'m about to buy a firewall, and I wonder if you people could give me > some advices that could help me decide which one that fits me best. See, > I\'m quite new with this. > > So, this firewall should protect a quite big serverpark. It has to deal > with a lot of information. It might be necessary to use two devices. If > it is, the information will be divided upon these two with a load > balancer. No special needs for VPN. > > I\'ve been thinking about using Watchguard Firewall 2500 or 4500. I > know that 4500 handles VPN though. > > Is this a good choice? Is there sites on the net where products are > compared and where you could see the good and the bad of each one? > > Thanks / Martin Andersson
