Hi all hackers ! Yesterday I googled for "Comparison of Firewalls" and found nothing. I was very upset about it, so decided to create one article, and put in Wikipedia. But since, I am only 1 man, I don't know everything about firewalls. The article's target is to compare features of all Firewalls, both Home and Enterprise must be put to test. I would like productive discussion about it, what you like and what dislike, and please add data about some firewalls you know... like ZoneAlarm, BlackIce, whatever you know... The article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Firewalls -any feedback ? -Fenix*NBK* 2.10.2006.
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi all hackers !
Yesterday I googled for "Comparison of Firewalls" and found nothing. I was very upset about it, so decided to create one article, and put in Wikipedia.
Try googling for "firewall vergleich", and you'll find plenty of information. http://www.burger-inf.ch/firewall_vergleich.htm Personally, I use a careful combination of removing unused services and an iptables setup on all my public network machines. Machines on my private network are protected by the gateway machine which also uses iptables. /Per Jessen, Zürich
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Yesterday I googled for "Comparison of Firewalls" and found nothing.
??? There are several million hits for this search phrase. Even if one puts in quotes and wants exactly that phrase, there are still 68 matches. There you can also find hundreds of pages about Checkpoint's VPN-1, where you could learn more about, looking at your Wikipedia article. Your chosen categories for comparison look quite ad-hoc and don't reflect requirements for firewalls in professional settings. (E.g., you know about the demand for secure and reliable central logging, clustering/VRRP, and other stuff?) I would recommend to read more of those Google hits, then you might be able to come up with a more profund categorization of firewall comparison. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany
On 10/4/06, Joachim Schrod <jschrod@acm.org> wrote:
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Yesterday I googled for "Comparison of Firewalls" and found nothing.
???
There are several million hits for this search phrase. Even if one puts in quotes and wants exactly that phrase, there are still 68 matches.
There you can also find hundreds of pages about Checkpoint's VPN-1, where you could learn more about, looking at your Wikipedia article.
Your chosen categories for comparison look quite ad-hoc and don't reflect requirements for firewalls in professional settings. (E.g., you know about the demand for secure and reliable central logging, clustering/VRRP, and other stuff?) I would recommend to read more of those Google hits, then you might be able to come up with a more profund categorization of firewall comparison.
Joachim
If you think you can improve, you are welcome. Add a new table with features, that are "Professionally Required" and add Firewalls that you know to that table. I would try to add as well... -Fenix*NBK*.
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