Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 20:30:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mark L. Holloway" <mlholloway@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is it a REAL Firewall? Message-ID: <19990531033057.5950.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com>
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What is the difference between FreeBSD's Firewall (or any of the free firewalls) vs. Gauntlet, Raptor, Cyberguard, or Checkpoint. They all run on Windows NT (among other OSs) and cost approximately $20,000. Is it VPN features? Is it EASE OF USE? What CAN'T you do on the FreeBSD OS Firewall that the commercial ones can do? There has to be SOMETHING!? The commercial ones don't even include support or upgrades, that's the base price! I know the obvious differences between FreeBSD and Windows NT. I also know that so many corporations are supporting NT more than ever before. When I went to Networld+Interop NT was everywhere (some Solaris). It's going nuts! How about networking tools? "Sniffer Total Network Visibility" from NAI is now $11,000! I'm very excited about using FreeBSD in my everyday work for network troubleshooting. I just want to know how to answer the other guys when they ask "What is it about the FreeBSD firewall that makes it so much better than Checkpoint, Cyberguard, Gauntlet, or Raptor?" Regards, Mark _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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