[146400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe)
Thu Nov 10 13:52:56 2011
From: Joe <js.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EBC17E4.5060807@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:51:14 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Litigation? Wow.=20
To answer the OP:
Any of the Cisco, Juniper, Sonic, Fortinet, etc can be easy to use to =
maintain. But I'd make sure you have a good understanding of what you =
intend to do, and what products will satisfy your needs. Demo's are a =
good idea. One person's definition of easy may not match someone else's.
If you know what you're doing and want to roll your own, then go with =
what you're most comfortable with (linux, bad, etc). Your subject =
indicates you aren't comfortable with rolling your own, so there is no =
point to the side debate going on in this thread.
Side point: For what it's worth, I use PF on OpenBSD because I like the =
clean and easy to read syntax. To me, that is *easier* to use, than =
trying to figure out some point-click GUI. The take away from this is, =
"what does ease of use mean to you"?
Hope that helps.=
