RE: [cobalt-users] Qube Discussions

["Jeff Newman" <mjeffn@xxxxxxxx>]

The Cube is a perfect match to the uses that you have in mind.  The firewall
is very basic and probably risky for use as a real firewall between your
comany and the Internet.

Two products to look at are the Sonicwall DMZ and the Watchguard Firebox II.
Smaller budget = Sonic and Lager = Watchguard.  Watchguard has application
proxies for HTTP and SMTP and some others.  Both products use stateful
inspection packet filtering whereas, the Cube uses ipfwadm which is
stateless and therefor unable to distinguish an incoming packet's validity
based on if it is a response to a legitimate request from inside your
network.

Both product handle IPSec VPN implementations easily and well.

Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dom Latter
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:03 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube Discussions


David Mitchell wrote:
>
> I am new to the list (2 days) and am considering a Qube2 for
> my company's new facility.  Judging from the minute number of
> posts to this list regarding the Qube, I can only assume that
> either the Qube is MUCH more stable than the RAQ, it is much
> less complex than the RAQ, there are MANY less units in use,
> the sheer volumn of RAQ posts scares Qube users away, some
> combination of the above, or there is some other reason that
> I am unaware of.

People tend to buy one Qube and then use it to do the job it
was designed for.

But it seems that people buy many RaQs and then try to get it
to make a decent cup of tea as well as supporting 250 websites,
running e-commerce apps, Front Page extensions, and gawd knows
what else somebody has decided leads to a "rich multimedia
experience".

This then leads on to a lot of stuff that is often not Cobalt-
specific at all, but to do with the Internet, DNS, etc...

[Off Topic]

How To Make A Decent Cup Of Tea:

- Empty the kettle
- Fill with cold fresh water
- *warm* the teapot with water from the kettle as it approaches the boil
- empty the teapot
- add loose tea (one teaspoon per person and "one for the pot")
- pour in boiling (and I mean *boiling*) water
- stir
- wait a bit.

The above Common Beverage Interface script should work with most
kitchen appliances.

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