Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 01:36:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net> To: "Mark L. Holloway" <mlholloway@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it a REAL Firewall? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990531013443.5628j-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net> In-Reply-To: <19990531033057.5950.rocketmail@web505.yahoomail.com>
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On Sun, 30 May 1999, Mark L. Holloway wrote: > > 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. > The commercial ones include very nicely manuals printed on a high-quality offset press, along with the warm and fuzzy feeling that you have someone to shoot when things go disastrously wrong. The latter feature is often unnecessary with FreeBSD and Linux, as things rarely go disastrousely wrong(never had it happen to me before). TTYL! --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac paul@geeky1.ebtech.net Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group http://www.sar-net.com/slug http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "BETTER LIVING THROUGH RECKLESS EXPERIMENTATION" - Motto of The Mad Scientist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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