Firewall Wizards: Re: Sonicwall or Watchguard

["B. James Phillippe" <bryanxms () ecst csuchico edu>]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Eric Budke wrote:

> I can't speak from an administration standpoint, but from a user
> standpoint, my company's Watchguard sucks.
>
> It requires a reboot to update rules (from what I understand they are
They just released version 5.0 which doesn't have this problem anymore.

> And the "VPN" solution is really false advertising. It just opens up a
> hole in your firewall. If you are using any sort of NAT, you have now
> opened up a whole in your firewall for all the other users behind that
> nat to get in.
I don't understand what you mean here.  I have used WatchGuard's VPN
(IPSec) and NAT and have not had any security issues; the VPN tunnel is
configured completely separate to the NAT and security policies, and both
NAT and security policies can be applied to VPN traffic (within the
tunnel).

-bp
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# bryanxms at ecst dot csuchico dot edu
# Software Engineer


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