On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, John Jasen wrote: > I may be in a vanishing category, but above and beyond network gear, I > hate appliances. There is almost always going to be a case where you > need it to do X in order to work within your environment, and the > appliance doesn't support X. So, you will be left with doing Y, Z and A > with the appliance, in order to emulate being able to do X. Most times, > it will be a "problem" trivially solved if you had shell on the toaster > or an open solution instead.
I certainly agree. > In your case, where making security audits more simple is a design goal, > is it worth it to spend more on an appliance to do this, or is it more > cost effective over the long term to just drop in a unix box? In this case, I think it will be more cost effective to use an appliance. And since upper management wants to use an appliance, I'm going with they're decision. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
