Jeff, See below, some of this is not directly related to the topic, but to the process of talking about/exchanging information on the topic. On Wed, 02 Mar...
... Asking Secure Computing to support running additional milters through sendmail within SecureOS might be a non-starter, considering type enforcement and...
Kevin
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Mar 4, 2005 12:43 am
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:03:27 -0700 (MST), Steve Holden ... I won't argue with that statement. I emailed a low-priority support question late this past Friday...
Kevin
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Mar 14, 2005 9:22 pm
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... I've had the opportunity to deploy PIX in front of Sidewinder G2, and declined -- I don't really see the value of the Internet->PIX->G2 approach over...
... In this most basic of deployments (not a "firewall sandwich" type of DMZ), the goal would be to pre-filter the traffic that comes in to the G2 firewall,...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Mar 16, 2005 1:22 am
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Has anybody been able to make AOL Instant Messenger work successfully using the standard HTTP proxy in Sidewinder G2? AOL has a "https" mode which will use...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Mar 17, 2005 8:36 am
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:35:34 -0600, sidewinder@... ... Richard, I'm not sure what you are saying. Where the older machines running current G2 code or...
You've probably already seen the BHC report from this January, a brief (8 page) report written for SCC showing effectiveness of Sidewinder G2 against assorted...
... The problem is fixed as of Sidewinder G2 6.1.0 Patch 6, installing patch 6 has resolved the open issues with getting Bloomberg clients to function via...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Mar 30, 2005 6:04 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the sidewinder-users group: How are you using Enterprise Manager? o We don't have G2EM, we locally...
sidewinder-users@yaho...
Apr 6, 2005 2:32 am
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I received the official 6.1.1 announcement today, and also noticed "(611)" versions of the G2 documentation on the support site. Interestingly, the updated...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Apr 8, 2005 12:16 am
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All, Our organization just put online two of our 6 Sidewinder G2's this week. Forced to G2 since SCC got rid of Gauntlet.....(still have Gauntlet 6.0 Solaris...
... Many would say this is the price of progress, or that you could always go back to FWTK. Gauntlet 6.0 on Solaris had serious performance problems, and...
Kevin
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Jun 8, 2005 1:51 pm
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For a real laugh try smartreporter. It reports all your users web browsing habits, by IP address that is. Real useful for us DHCP users. On the positive side,...
... At this point, FWTK would be an "extreme retrograde upgrade" ;) It's interesting to note that virtually all the components from the toolkit have been...
To follow up on my own post. As usual, I open my mouth and insert my foot. After I emailed my post about smartreporter (but before it hit the mailing list) I...
All, We're wanting something that will actively watch allows/denys on FILTER RULES (we can do this with proxies) or ports/protocols that have no rule at all....
... It seems Sidewinder has all this crazy information they log, instead ... of just "x tried to go to y on this port, at this time" and raised and ... I can...
The full press release is not yet available on the SCC site. Today Secure Computing announced "Security Reporter", a graphical security event analysis and...
The following sidewinder-users poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: How are you using Enterprise Manager? CHOICES AND RESULTS - We...
sidewinder-users@yaho...
Aug 2, 2005 8:06 am
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All of the firewalls (G2 and otherwise) I manage are on serial console. The exception being that Sidewinder installation/re-installation/restore does not...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Aug 3, 2005 9:03 pm
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Announced today, Secure Computing will be dropping the "squid" proxy from Sidewinder G2 as of September 30, 2006 (13 months from now). Specifically "The next...
Support is closed for the night, so I figured I'd try asking here. I'm installing a number of identical Sidewinder G2 firewalls, all 2150C appliances, all...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Aug 24, 2005 2:41 am
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I have never seen this on a Sidewinder, but have on other unix boxes I have built. If the "appliance" is a Dell machine be aware that they change hardware...
I'm new to sidewinder. I tried backing up the appliance via the management console and the only options are floppy and local. I assume that local means local...
A month or two back I heard that SC were planning to drop squid. For myself, I'd rather they wouldn't. The HTTP proxy logging is very poor by comparison, and...
Many organizations have "inside" firewalls with no direct Internet access, and thus cannot use automatic license activation via HTTPS, nor automatic patch...