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Subject: Re: Questions for firewall users
From: HIST1A @ Jetson . UH . EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 09:47:59 -0500 (CDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> YES. If you have a month or two full-time of an already-talented
sysadmin's
> time, you can install the TIS firewall toolkit and do about as
good a job as
> the commercial guys.

A month or two?  Surely you jest?

We went from a wide-open network to a dual-homed bastion with the
TIS fwtk
and SOCKS over a weekend, with about a week of prep work by a
summer intern,
and maybe 20 hours of senior engineering time (we were without a
sysadmin at

-----end of quoted material -----

I installed the PORTUS system on my network and and had it up and
running in FOUR HOURS with no headaches and the LSLI folks waiting
on the phone incase I had any problems --- which never popped up.

It's the easiest install I've done in a long time.


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