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At 2:26 PM -0400 7/24/97, Daniel Rubin wrote:
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>After much research and fighting with the support reps at Sun
>we discovered that the Light Security Center License only supports
>one external interface (terminology used for licensing purposes).
>As a result it counted each host it received packets from on any
>of the other interfaces as an internal host. That license only
>allow 50 internal hosts. That license was about $5000.00 and
>it turns out the license we needed is just about $40,000. Try to
>sell that to management!
I understand your frustration there -- I also have a problem with the manner
in which FW-1 is licensed -- Checkpoint's philosophy differs from mine
(go figure!) on the difference between IP nodes behind that firewall that want
'outbound' access through the internal interfaces vs. the "...number of
protected
nodes behind the external interface" routine CP pushes.
>If we knew this earlier we would have just purcased a CICSO
>enterprise router, which does just about everything the
>firewall-1 software does.
>
I'd beg to differ here -- If you can point me in the direction of this mythical
CICSO (you do mean Cisco, right?) box, I'll be more than interested in
evaluating it! We've got many a FireWall-1 installed here, and I've yet
to find anything Cisco makes (including the PIX) that comes close to FW-1's
balance of security, speed, management, and cost-of-ownership.
Just my $0.02
Chris
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