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Hi. I have been reading this mailing list for the last few months and
found the information very useful.
Has anyone on the list used Proteon routers, specifically RBX200?
I am in Japan and locally the Proteon router is priced very competitively
against, say, Cisco and Wellfleet.
I am setting up a firewall for a digital 64kbps connection and
in need of a good filter. Cisco and Wellfleet are good ones.
However, one of the providers I talked to suggested that we use
Proteon RBX200.
I am interested in the filtering capability of the router: the local
representative of a distributor for Proteon
told me that it supports access control in the form of source
address(+netmask) and destination address(+netmask) and port number
and service combinations. This is good. But not good enough.
The only thing he couldn't answer and is most important information to
me is whether it supports the filtering of source-routed packets.
(I am not sure if my phrase is correct: the packtes that tries to show
it is coming from the internal LAN although it originates somewhere
else). My firewall has a dual-honed sparcstation and the software on
it depends that no source-routed packets claiming to come from inside
won't be allowed to enter the router from outside.
The local rep told me that he would check with Proteon in U.S.A., but
asked me to wait for a week.
Just thought someone has used it already and has a good working
knowledge of it.
Regards,
--
Chiaki Ishikawa ishikawa @
personal-media .
co .
jp
Personal Media Corp.
Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan 141
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