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Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall bake-off?

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall bake-off?
From: Carson Gaspar <carson@taltos.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:20:38 -0700
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James Hampton wrote:
> I need to upgrade my current firewall solution, I currently use
> Checkpoint but I have concerns about there long term future, pluse
> there support and documentation are sorely lacking. I have used
> Cisco's ASA's, but they lack a mature central management solution. Has
> anyone done any serious bake-offs between ASA,Check Point and Juniper?

I have, but it's been several years since I did so. At the time, Juniper 
ate the other 2 for lunch. But Cisco, at least, has definitely improved 
since then. I have seen nothing on the Checkpoint side to change my 
opinion of them (just try and get them to give you 64-byte PPS 
throughput numbers - I dare ya').

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Carson
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