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Subject: Re: Questions for firewall users
From: "Matt D'Errico" <matt @ magna . com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:11:03 -0500 (EDT)
To: HIST1A @ Jetson . UH . EDU
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <01HGCZPDDIDE8ZEC49 @ Jetson . UH . EDU> from "HIST1A @ Jetson . UH . EDU" at Aug 26, 94 09:47:59 am

> > 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

TIS installed their toolkit for us on the first machine, and I've since
installed it on 2 others - one from scratch - in about 2 days for the
first one and 2 hours for the second...

-- Doc


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