RE: Firewall -- MIDRANGE-L

Don't feel bad Al I also at one time had bought into the IBM firewall being
the best or so they said.  Here are two options that I went with that you
can try:

1. Technologic makes a great firewall product.  Very easy to configure, you
put a cd into your desktop it walks you through the configuration and then
loads that config onto a floppy which you then put into the machine.  Once
the firewall boots it reads the disk and loads the config from there.  Very
easy took about 30 minutes from opening the box to hooking it up to
utilizing it on our network.  The logging mechanisms on it are pretty good,
not much in the way of customization though.  I believe the cost of it was
about $2500.00.  The website is www.tlogic.com and the product is the
instagate.

2. As someone else wrote Linux was very easy to configure.  Even if you
don't know anything about it there is documentation on the web that can you
walk through every part of the install and configuration.  I have been using
an old P75 as my gateway as a test and it has worked fine with no problems
whatsoever.  You can get a linux distribution for 1.75 at
www.linuxcentral.com.  The hardware you can get from anywhere, and for
cheap.  

As far as ease to use the first choice would be mine, but as far as
expandability and configurability the second choice would be the way to go.

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:10 PM
To: midrange-L@midrange.com
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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