Testing Firewalls

["Cimmino, Marcos" <MCimmino @ uniFON . com . ar>]

>Good Afternoon, I'm a student in an Argentine University and currently
>doing a investigation on Distibuted databases on the Internet being
>protected by Firewalls, what I need to know is what features must be
>analized (security and performance) to evaluate a Firewall system. And
>how these items are evaluated, like tools, software, etc.
>Thankyou very much for your time, and pardon my poor english.
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