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Posted by Duane Arnold on March 19, 2006, 10:02 am
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> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:39:04 +0000, Duane Arnold wrote:
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>>Olivier Sessink wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>is anyone aware if there have been studies comparing open source firewall
>>>solutions and closed solutions?
>>>
>>>if there been been such studies, is there some general conclusion?
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>>What? Do you think that an open source solution is better than a
>>proprietary solution or a proprietary solution is better than an open
>>source solution?
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> [..snip..]
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> I was hoping to find out. I'm talking about network firewalls b.t.w., not
> host based firewalls. I agree with all of you that it depends on the
> administrator, I also agree with all of you that it is all just software
> written by humans.
>
> In some places (public sector), however, there is a political demand for
> open source products.
What political demand are you talking about? There is a consumer demand
and that's about it.
I was wondering if there are certain techniques that
> are worse/better implemented in open/closed products (or not at all). So
> if you have the perfect administrator who knows everything, why then
> choose juniper/cisco/checkpoint or why choose openbsd/linux ?
Any solution FW or otherwise is based on the needs or requirements for a
given solution by the user needing or using the solution.
The link may or may not help you.
http://www.more.net/technical/netserv/tcpip/firewalls/
Duane :)
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