[70516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hepworth)
Tue May 18 07:22:19 2004
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:20:16 +0100
From: Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <FC0ABFFA-A8BC-11D8-B649-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
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Matt
>
> 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
>
>
I prob spend ay most a couple of hours per week tweeking the thing now..
depends on whether you can squease the 4k out of the bean counters up
front...:-)
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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