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Re: (ASCEND) Anyone have secure access firewall?



  I have it and have been running it for about 2 months now on
my Pipeline 75. Once you figure out how to get it 
going it's actually quite easy. And it works period, I may
whine and groan about MAX 4000 OS issues, But I've never
had a problem with my Secure Access Firewall software.

It works plain and simple.


Jason Nealis
Erols Internet


On Sat, 24 May 1997, Gil Kloepfer Jr. wrote:

> Does anyone out there have Ascend's Secure Access Firewall product,
> and what are your opinions of it?
> 
> Specifically, what I'm looking for are *technical* opinions about the
> product (I will be using it on a Pipeline-50, with the switch):
> 
>     Does it enhance/hinder the router's performance at all?
> 
>     Have you found a way to perform configuration under UNIX,
>     rather than with Ascend's Secure Access Manager?
> 
>     Have you run into any problems such as exceeding the limits
>     on the number of states (connections) the router can keep track
>     of, or exceeding the amount of firewall information that can be
>     stored in memory?  (If so, would you provide specifics.)
> 
>     Are there any services (like RealAudio or the like) that you want
>     to be able to use, but now can't due to a firewall limitation?
> 
> I intend to use the secure access firewall as a firewall for my
> Internet connection ("Perm/Switched" type of connection). 
> 
> I have seriously considered purchasing this product, but am reluctant
> to do so until I have gotten some feedback from folks who have used
> it in a real-world environment on a Pipeline-50.  My biggest complaint
> so far is that it's ONLY configurable through a MS-windows-based GUI
> tool.  This also appears to be Ascend's direction in general, and I
> hope they don't forget about the large base of users out here that
> are still using UNIX in a command-line or configuration-file type mode.
> I won't be able to reconfigure the router *remotely* from Windows-95
> easily...
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.  Please respond to the list unless
> you wish to keep your reply private.
> 
> Gil Kloepfer ... ngk@gc2.kloepfer.org
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