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Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:01:43 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: firewall | Mozilla

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Virginia wrote:

> Steve had an SMC firewall/router on Saturday (details of which he'd probably be willing to
> provide). Does anybody else have one of these puppies that cost in the range of $89 (what
> Steve's cost) and $150 that they'd be willing to recommend?

I'm sure units like these are quite sufficient for most situations. The one I have,
SonicWall, costs several times that, and is claimed to be an industrial strength device. I
expect it has a much larger log (prone to clogging up, with detrimental results, unless one
turns off the monitoring of routine dropped packets, which I finally did) and a whole lot more
setup / config. options (most of which I don't bother with: the manual is written in deep
NetworkAdminister-ese). So I wouldn't promote it to anyone not running a business network,
and needing the added features.

I was curious about your trashing of Mozilla, and wanted more specific details. I've been
planning on trying out WarpZilla, the open-source version, but don't want to bother with
anything that has a serious potential to mess up my system. Your negative report is the first
one I've heard . . . but I don't visit the newsgroups at all in recent times.

By the way, I found your presentation to be very good and useful. I started from near-zero in
my awareness of the way HTML works, and emerged from even this brief session with some
foundation.

Jordan

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