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...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Sep 28, 2005 5:41 pm
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Although the patch is dated September 19th, today Secure Computing announced Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance Patch 3 today (9/28). Patch 3 includes fixes and...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Sep 28, 2005 6:00 pm
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Daniel, Are you sure the floppy backup isn't working? Depending on the number or rules and objects, the backup may take many floppies, but the management ...
JR, One issue with SCC using squid, for whatever reason, they didn't keep current. I'm not sure of all the reasons why they decided to drop it, but I would...
I recently ran into an issue today with Enterprise Manager with two different "IP Address" objects, each with the same IP but subtly different names. It would...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Dec 15, 2005 4:59 am
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After logging on the console as a user, and typing startx, the system states 'the command cannot be found'. Any ideas on where or how I can enable the 'startx'...
... If you are running Sidewinder G2 you are out of luck. Secure Computing removed the X server from Sidewinder in G2. I miss it for sure :( I hate having to...
... I'd be happy to just have an X-enabled version of the G2 and EM management GUI available to execute on an EM or firewall without a display, that is, ...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Jan 18, 2006 4:46 am
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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:45:35 -0600, Kevin proclaimed... ... I'm going to agree here; it is an injustice that SCC forces the use of Windows operating systems....
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:24:07 -0000, e_privott proclaimed... ... You don't; you either learn the cf(8) commandset and do things that are "mostly" supported by...
... install ... Agreed about it being crap they took the GUI off the firewall. I miss just being able to set the display back to another system and running it...
... Given that they are in the middle of moving to new offices, my best guess is that updating the web page to show the new patch level was simply overlooked. ...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Feb 22, 2006 7:29 pm
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Actually I wouldn't mind seeing some SideWinder job posts here. St. Louis is not a hot spot for SideWinder, it would be nice to see SideWinder specific job...
Are you referring to the gen_reports -r netprobes report? Any packet that comes in on an unopened port shows up there, I use it all the time. As for denials,...
It's a long time since I logged in here. Squid can forward traffic to different upstream proxies, depending on the destination URL. This can be useful when,...
It may be crude, but here's what I use: tail -f /var/log/audit.raw | acat -a -w1000 | egrep -i 't_netprobe|t_acldeny|t_attack|denied' | grep -v nSkipped JR...
Agreed, and addressed in v.6.1.2. S ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
Secure Computing has announced Sidewinder G2 version v6.1.2, a CD-only upgrade release, with new and enhanced features. The upgrade notes are available here: ...
Kevin
kkadow@...
Mar 21, 2006 10:57 pm
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The following sidewinder-users poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What features would you like to see in a new SMTP transparent...