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Subject: Re: NSC Firewall experience?
From: Peter Carlson <carlsonp @ sprynet . com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 18:34:02 -0600
To: Bill Stout <stoutb @ pios . com>, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <2 . 2 . 32 . 19970530220016 . 00adbcb8 @ vaxf . pios . com>

A whole bunch of headaches.  I used to work for a company that had NSC
routers implemented, besides shoddy code, ridiculous support and routers
that just didn't function according to the basic thoeries of routing, they
didn't have too bad of a product.  ;-)

-Peter 

At 03:00 PM 5/30/97 -0700, Bill Stout wrote:
>NSC Firewalls were recommended by a consulting firm for a customer.  From
>what I can determine from their website so far, BorderGuard/NetSentry
>products are basically filtering routers, not firewalls.  So far I don't see
>a difference between NSC BorderGuard and normal Cisco routers' capability to
>do extended filtering and VPNs.
>
>What am I missing?  Comments?
>
>
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Bill Stout       (Systems Engineer/Consultant)         stoutb @
 pios .
 com
>Pioneer Standard (Computer Systems & Components)       http://www.pios.com/
>San Jose, CA     (Location of 1 of 52 U.S. offices)    (408) 954-9100
>*My opinions do not reflect that of the company, and visa-versa, thankfully.*
>


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