>>>>> "Joe" == Joseph Judge <joej @
joesmac .
ultranet .
com> writes:
Joe> With the release of the Solaris versions of Gauntlet and
Joe> SmartWall, the ability of buying the source code has disappeared.
As some black-hat folks I know might say:
"Th4+ $uX0rz"
Joe> Does anyone else muck with the source code like I do ?
I do... For internal stuff here, I like to use bits of FWTK for
various jobs. Some tools are heavily hacked, some are just compiled
as-is, and most are somewhere in the middle.
In consulting situations, I typically recommend Gauntlet if someone
wants to "buy a firewall," or need something like that for a bastion
host. I've never known anyone with Gauntlet (besides me) to hack at
the code.
In reality, I suspect that this is just a sign of the firewalling
times. Firewalls are becoming commodity items. People don't
typically screw around with their household appliances and other
commodity-type things. Firewalls are headed in the same direction,
and I think that's only going to continue as many IS organizations
continue to want to hire button-pusher types, and buy things that
claim to bring their systems to that level.
Whether this is a Good Thing, a Bad Thing, or some combination thereof
(I vote for the latter, myself) isn't really relevant; it's what's
happening. As a result, the here-are-some-tools-build-it-yourself
approach will probably continue to be used in places where it has been
done alreday, and almost all new installations will be of the
simple-enough-for-a-button-pusher type.
--
Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin @
research .
megasoft .
com
http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself
Death to small keys. Crack DES NOW! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
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