[70515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Tue May 18 07:18:26 2004
In-Reply-To: <40A9C5C5.9050306@solid-state-logic.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:17:44 -0400
To: Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On May 18, 2004, at 4:13 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
> Matthew
>
> Spamassassin needs quite a bit of tweaking above the out of the box
> setup. I run about 7000 messages a day here, 70% spam, .5% virus
> (clamav and Sophos), very very rarely a FP. I get bove 99% hit rate
> after adding in bayes, serveral additional rules from
> www.rulesemporium.org and the URI checkes. Runs on a 600mhz celeron
> with load avg < .5
>
>
I agree that everything the Barracuda does can be done by hand. I had
a choice of either spending $4k for a 'set it and forget it' type spam
solution or continue to spend days per month of my time tweaking my old
setup. I chose to go with the commercial route which will easily save
me $$ and more importantly frustration over the course of this year. I
can spend my time building my business now instead of tweaking my mail
server.
Barracuda is built on open source, It boots LILO then goes into
'secret' mode. I don't think they added any black magic to the box.
They just assembled the open source parts and shrink wrapped it into a
very easy to manage solution.
-Matt
