RE: Sidewinder G2

["Patrick Doyle" <patrick.doyle () bbc co uk>]

I think Michael was talking about having a sendmail service running on a
firewall, and not a mail guard feature which the Cisco Pix has, which is
supposed to limit SMTP commands to a specified minimum set of commands.

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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:44:01 MST, Michael Gale
<michael () bluesuperman com>  said:

> I believe two of the most secure firewalls are Cisco Pix and the
> BorderWare Firewall. Cisco does not offer any services and Borderware
> offers a few for small business and are very restrictive.

For a machine that doesn't have any services, the Cisco PIX is infamous
for breaking SMTP. Google for 'cisco pix smtp' and let me know if you
still
think the PIX doesn't have services on it.

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