Firewall Wizards: Re: External Load Balancing

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Kevin wrote:
> One advantage of the Radware products is that they are true
> appliances
Appliance, schmaiance!

What's in an appliance? Software.
What's in a Windows box? Software.
What's in a Linux box? Software.
What's in a Cisco box? Software.

"Appliance" is just a frozen configuration of a software/hardware
combination. Sometimes it's a good configuration of good
software. Sometimes it's not. I saw one "appliance" that had a
back-door telnetd on a "hidden" (who'd ever think to look for telnetd
on port 1823?!!) port. Geniuses build appliances. Idiots build
appliances. Your mileage may vary.

But if you just assume "appliance == goodness" then you've
been drinking too much marketing kool-ade.

mjr. 

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