Re: Firewall

["MDC Information Systems" <mdcis@xxxxxx>]

Al,

1. Raptor from Axent
2. Equiv. of $2,000 aprox (plus cost of small NT PC)
3. Yes, we even bought a second!
4. Used a FW engineer for setup & he also trained us, so now we are self
sufficient.
(If we didn't need VPN, NAT & remote SSL green screen connections we could
probably have done it from the manual but it would have taken much longer &
we may not have passed our security auditors 'pen. test' first time)

It pains me to tell you that when a JCB dug up all the cables to the webfarm
building (including UPS, backup generator etc.) the NT box & Raptor
recovered automatically on restoration of utility power but our 400 didn't!

Regards,
Mike Dunnion

PS We have a performance issue when PDF files are being downloaded, the FW
box spends several seconds in processor overload (over 100%) and all our
websites behind it suffer, yet to prove if this is a HW or SW issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: midrange-L@midrange.com <midrange-L@midrange.com>
Date: 06 December 2000 01:55
Subject: Firewall


>Hi,
>
>Being a loyal AS/400 customer and user, I bought the crock of @#$% that our
>AS/400 firewall was the best, and invested in it.  Shame on me.  So now I
>have to replace it.  So here's a few questions:
>
>1) What Firewall product do you use?
>2) How much did it cost?
>3) How satisfied are you with it?
>4) How difficult was it to configure?
>
>
>Al
>
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