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> On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Mike Jones wrote:
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> > In fact, FireWall-1 offers NAT and it's not a proxy firewall. Michael,
> > you're completely off base on this one.
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> The please explain why Checkpoint advertises Firewall -1 as an
> application gateway ?
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According to Network Computing Magazine (4/1/96):
".. CheckPoint FireWall-1 uses a powerful scripting language called
Inspect, which dynamically tracks and examines packets up through the
application layer. Even though it does not implement proxies in the
traditional sense, like Gauntlet and CyberGuard, its ability to
analyze the applicatin data allows CheckPoint to implement many of
the same capabilities without sacrificing performance.."
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