[118686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Oct 26 17:30:11 2009
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910261209200.3556@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:29:23 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Jay Nakamura wrote:
>
>> Looking for input on Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick. =A0I can look up
>> spec and other published information but, as always, the devil is in
>> the detail and you just never know what wall you run into until you
>> actually try it so I wanted to see if anyone has used this and can
>> point out good/bad things about this device.
>>
>> Our other option is Cisco IOS router right now. =A0Are there better
>> options than these two?
>
> Fair warning: v6 honestly seems to have caught most firewall vendors with
> their pants down.
I'm not really sure that in the year 2009 that's a fair thing to still
expect... honestly ipv6 has been in 'production' for ~7 years, for a
CPE deployment it's certainly been to the point where it should be
included by default.
-1 alcalu :(
-Chris
