On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:57:11PM -0800, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> Hey all...
>
> I'm looking at Cisco Pix 535/525 as a firewall solution and was looking
> for some feedback on things to look for in evaluating the system and any
> experience with the product. Please feel free to contact me offline at
> kulriksen@publichost.com.
Here's my opinion.. Cisco PIX is a piece of garbage. It's slow and unweildy,
the way it's put together leaves alot to be desired. I'll get into more
specifics when TAC can tell me why i get stalled transfers from interface to
interface. I've had problems with failover in some cases as well. The defaults
are, of course, idiotic. The "fixups" immediately broke my SMTP AUTH on
sendmail. One code revision of the OS -- 5.1(1) -- broke every 48-72 hours
until I updated it. With a floppy, for chrissake!..
I'm told the Nokia Checkpoint system is the top of the line but I haven't had
a chance to check it out. I am very dissapointed with the quality of PIX. I
could put together a FreeBSD with some quad cards and end up with the same
thing but easier to manage.
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