Re: comp.security.firewalls Trolls

"Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in message
news:49datnFod9qbU1@news.dfncis.de...
> Somebody. wrote:
>
>> I'm not making any judgements either way about any of that, just pointing
>> out that I feel like hardware firewalls and software firewalls are quite
>> different discussion items,
>
> "hardware" firewalls are also implemented in software, it's just that
> the hardware is dedicated.

Allright, let me be more exact for those that like to pick.

I would like to separate the discussion of Personal Firewall Software that
runs on one's workstation, from Firewall Appliances that run at the edge of
one's network.

Is that clear enough?

>
>> and I have more of an interest in one than the other.
>
> The most serious discussion is about software implementations and
> configuration.

Norton Internet Security, Kerios, and the like are an utterly different
discussion from PIX and NetScreen.

-Russ.
Received on Mon May 1 01:04:59 2006