Low-cost Firewall for Solaris--SUMMARY

From: Ryan Yuzon (ryuzon@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 18:17:20 CDT


Thanks very much to all who responded regarding low-cost firewalls for
Solaris. Below please find a summary of the responses, for your
reference.

Commercial Products:

SonicWall by Sonic Systems
http://www.sonicsys.com/products.html
SonicWall is a hardware solution which provides all of the basic
functionality, plus some added features. SonicWall is inexpensive at
$495 for 10 IP addresses and basic functionality, and $1,495 for
unlimited addresses with additional features.

Ascend
www.ascend.com
Ascend offers a product called Secure Access Firewall. I was not able
to find a price on their web-site.

www.tis.com
As far as I can tell, Trusted Information Systmes (TIS) has developed
two products: the Firewall Toolkit (FWTK), and the Gauntlet Firewall.
The Firewall Toolkit is freeware, more information can be found at
http://www.fwtk.org.
Gauntlet is a commercial product, with a price range of
$5,000-$17,500. More information can be found at www.tis.com.

Freeware:

IP filter offers filtering via IP, port, protocol/service, NAT,
logging, etc and it can be installed on an non-dedicated server. The
latest version can be found at:
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/net/ip-filter/ip-fil3.2.10.tar.gz
-or-
http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html

http://www.openbsd.org/
This is another site which offers a free program.

List of Firewall Products and Vendors:
http://www.waterw.com/~manowar/vendor.html

Information on ICSA certification for Firewall products:
http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/firewalls/certification.shtml

LINUX
Several people suggested using a PC with Linux (even something as
simple as a 486 with a couple of PCI
ethernet cards), and using a free firewall program.
www.linuxrouter.org

Firewall FAQ (Basic information):
http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/pubs/fwfaq/

Thanks again for the information.
Ryan Yuzon

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