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NFR Wizards Archive: Re: Firewall-Wizards Digest V1 #34

Re: Firewall-Wizards Digest V1 #34

Sandeep_Talwarnotes.pw.com
Mon, 17 Nov 97 18:53:25 EST

>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:24:26 +0000
>From: Chris Booth <chris_boothleagas.co.uk>
>Subject: Altavista v TIS toolkit on Linux, which is better?

>Hello from England, land of the baby killers.

>Network is a small network of 250 addresses with only one domain name,
>though there is a distinct possibility that another two may be added
>sometime in the next year.

>We currently only have a dial up connection to the Internet but we are
>intending to change to a leased line connection through a router. >Behind
>the router I would like to have a DMZ for a web server, maybe news, >then a
>firewall.

>We don't have much money so I use as much freeware as possible, and I don't
>have *any* time.

>Is Altavista firewall any good? how does it compare to the free TIS >toolkit?

>Is it possible to run Altavista firewall on Linux or am I expected to
>purchase a Digital Unix box to run it on?

>If I can run it on Linux is anybody willing to give a newbie some tips?

>Is their a cheaper solution which is as good or better?

>Thank you for any help.
>Chris Booth,
>Network Manager from Penagen Computing Ltd, running the network at:
>Leagas Shafron Davis Ltd.,
>e.: Chris_Boothleagas.co.uk
>t.: 0171 528 8888 x253
>f.: 0171 636 1119
>s.: Metropolis House, 22 Percy Street, London, W1P 9FF, U.K..

TIS tool-kit offers all the functionality that any firewall, commercial
one like Altavista would offer. I have used both of them. ie TIS tool-kit on
Linux and Altavista on WindowsNT4.0.
Installation of Altavista is easy and one could configure it according to one's
security policy within hours. The Tool-kit however has to be installed but the
accompanying readme's should suffice.
However I had one big problem with the Altavista firewall and that was
it's web proxy. After about 10 concurrent client sessions the web proxy
did not respond and after a while when the sesions reduced then the proxy did
respond. It was a great discomfort and ultimately we had to
abandon this product.
The Altavista Firewall is available now for both Windows NT (Intel
or Alpha), and Digital UNIX.
I suggest you download a free evaluation copy of this Firewall and run it.

For more information go to
http://www.altavista.software.digital.com/firewall/index.htm

Hope this helps.

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