Firewall Wizards: RE: tunnel vs open a hole

["Bowden, Kevin" <bowden_kw () naptheon com>]

Well, one reason at least, is management's hesitation / refusal to trust
enterprise solutions to an ethereal support system.  They want to be able to
have someone pick up a phone when something breaks so they can get the
problem fixed ASAP.  While this is no guarantee of a fix, at least they can
upwardly report "Our technical guys are on the phone with the vendor."  That
is a bit more substantial than "they dropped a post in a usenet group and
are waiting for someone to reply."

Kevin W. Bowden, CISSP
Senior Firewall Administrator
Northrop Grumman Information Technology
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus J. Ranum [mailto:mjr () ranum com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:06 AM
To: Sloane, David; firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] tunnel vs open a hole

Sloane, David wrote:
> I was just about to ignore this ever-expanding thread when this post from
> Mr. Ranum caught my attention.  Every aspect of the problem is addressed by
> open-source software development.
Spoken like a true believer...
_BUT_ -- if open source is the solution, why do we still have the problem?

mjr. 

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