[nsp] PIX 506e Question

[J A Pine]

The Netscreen firewall we are currently using is no longer supported by
Netscreen, which means no more OS patches and technical support.  The
company I work for is a Cisco partner, so we get their hardware at a
really good price.

Other than that, the Netscreen is a great firewall.  No real reason for
replacing it other than $$$$.

Jesse

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:31 PM
To: J A Pine
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] PIX 506e Question


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:13:40PM -0800, J A Pine wrote:
> We are in the process of replacing our Netscreen firewall with a Cisco

> PIX 506e Firewall.

Would you be willing to offer some background on why you are doing this?

I'm asking because we're actually moving in the opposite direction:
throwing out lots of Cisco gear (IPSEC routers, PIX firewalls) and 
replacing it with Netscreen firewalls.  

The problems you've been experiencing is one of the reasons - some thing
in IOS and PIX-OS are just cludgy, and Netscreen has invested quite some
thought into getting things "right" (not that they wouldn't have their
own share of stupid bugs).

gert
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