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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2002 10:36:36 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: firewall

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> > Peter wrote:

> > > You can "spoof" an IP header with a false address, and you
> > > can worm/trojan/talk your way into someone else's machine.
>
> J. R. Fox wrote:
> > I don't know what you're referring to here.
>
> Kewl! Umm, Jordan, what's your current IP address? . . .

Since SW is not priced as a consumer product, and sells mostly to enterprises
with networks, I would expect that far more formidable fowl than yourself
have attempted to crack it, without much success. I assume that because of
their reputation, and the recommendations that put me on to them in the
first place. Nevertheless, I'm not going to provide you with any convenient
target practice. So, no IP address . . . . Sorry.

> > A Sonic Wall.
>
> Thanks. Which one?
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> http://www.sonicwall.com/products/index.asp

The base model, which is not altogether identical with their current base model.
The prices escalate sharply as you go up in their line, adding functionality that
I either do not need, or could not justify paying for.

> I have an SMC Barricade which seems to work fine but doesn't have as
> many options as I'd like.

Yeah, these have a ton of features, many of which you have to be a network
engineer in order to understand or make use of. Steve (not Steven) told me
that it should be able to do anything that Junkbuster or that other package
(can't recall the name just now, but the author always has some rant about
Hare Krishna at the end of his Readme files) can do, *via device settings.*
But the SW documentation is pretty impenetrable to mere mortals. I can
tell you that it has a 4 meg. memory onboard, for maintaining its log.

> Do you set up your SonicWALL with a browser, like the Linksys and SMC?

Yes, you contact it and set it up with your browser. Any major browser,
I think. NS for OS/2 has been just fine for that.

Jordan

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