gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
| reply to madirish
Re: Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.5.916
Hi, friends... yep... I'm still using 2.1.5 ... despite the limitations, it's still the best packet filter (pure sense) available. I don't really know of anybody, nowdays, in the mainstream, doing a power user sort of firewall, in the metaphor of (old) Kerio, and I think it's a shame. Win32 brought computing to the masses, but it left us old goats out in the barnyard. The current incarnation of Kerio is an "integrated suite", and Sunbelt gives us no option. Take the suite, or take nothing.
Tiny > Kerio > Sunbelt was a one-trick pony, but it did the trick VERY well. It filtered ports and protocols. It relied on our understanding of which and whatever of those made sense, within our own understanding and use of the medium.
Firewall developers, take note. All you do, by coding the proxy with the firewall with the "privacy app" (usually, just an extension of the proxy, I digress) is create multiple, crossed over, unpredictible points of failure. Modular makes sense; small, one-trick apps, which can be "suited", if so desired, with PERL or TCL (obscene letters, of course, to a proprietary writer like MS, but... again... I ... hoo-boy, - - I digress...  )
Remember, the original Tiny was a freebie spun off from the enterprise level suite Tiny was selling to the Navy and Air Force, the old "CMDS" (centrally managed desktop security) system - they sold it off to some Chinese company... digressing, again, uh-hum...
Hell...
Doesn't anybody do anything, anymore...
... just to be "Best of breed"?.?. |
