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Subject: Re: Checkpoint FireWall-1 sanity check
From: wdawson @ willard . atl . ga . us (Willard Dawson)
Organization: Willard's House
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 14:46:08 GMT
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References: <199405111349 . AA19208 @ applicom . co . il>

horen @
 applicom .
 co .
 IL (Jonathan B. Horen) writes:

>When I initially set-up our
>firewall, I used a combination of Wietse Venema's tcpd-wrapper and
>Marcus J. Ranum's FireWall ToolKit.  They worked well, but tcpd-wrapper
>was difficult to maintain in a heterogeneous environment (Sun, AIX,
>HPUX, PC), across an ever-growing number of hosts (yes, complexity DOES
>= problems :)

I've got the same systems on my LAN.  I cannot say that I agree with
your statment that tcpd-wrapper is difficult to maintain.  No, I'd say
that it's the easiest thing in the world to configure.

What problems did you have, specifically?


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