Posted by: ThoreauHD
on September 21, 2004 02:14 PM
I bought a couple of licenses from clarkconnect for firewall and monitoring with automated updates for my businesses. It does a good job compared to the other's I've used. Mandrake MNF, Devil Linux, IPCop, and the like. All of them had issues supporting hardware that wasn't down at the ghetto level(no SCSI/SMP/Server chipsets). Why? I don't know- stupid, yes. That's the way they seem to like it, so whatever. Anyhow..
The reason why I bought it and didn't just build it myself and cron the updates, is that support is an issue for corporations. Mainly because, at this point in time, most corporations have Microsoft retards on staff that cannot and will not ever understand linux or any *nix OS for that matter. Support is the main reason that they use to keep linux out of the enterprise. Why? Because that's the only excuse they have left.
In any case, clarkconnect uses apt4rpm for the updates. Very easy to use, and I like how it just works for the most part. It does have some issues with pic filtering, and doesn't use sarge for ip logging, but it's getting better- and does the job for now. The support folks are very friendly and responsive as well.
Netmax uses straight rpm last I looked, although that may have changed. It also comes broken, last I checked, so that you have to call support to get it to forward packets by default when using it as a firewall. That was bullshit, so I decided to go with clarkconnect. It just worked. Next versions up are 2.2 and 3.0, and I think they're moving to fedora for those releases.
That's my take. All these linux service oriented guys were very friendly and knowledgeable though- much different than calling Microsoft or Oracle. I like that.
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Posted by: ThoreauHD on September 21, 2004 02:14 PMThe reason why I bought it and didn't just build it myself and cron the updates, is that support is an issue for corporations. Mainly because, at this point in time, most corporations have Microsoft retards on staff that cannot and will not ever understand linux or any *nix OS for that matter. Support is the main reason that they use to keep linux out of the enterprise. Why? Because that's the only excuse they have left.
In any case, clarkconnect uses apt4rpm for the updates. Very easy to use, and I like how it just works for the most part. It does have some issues with pic filtering, and doesn't use sarge for ip logging, but it's getting better- and does the job for now. The support folks are very friendly and responsive as well.
Netmax uses straight rpm last I looked, although that may have changed. It also comes broken, last I checked, so that you have to call support to get it to forward packets by default when using it as a firewall. That was bullshit, so I decided to go with clarkconnect. It just worked. Next versions up are 2.2 and 3.0, and I think they're moving to fedora for those releases.
That's my take. All these linux service oriented guys were very friendly and knowledgeable though- much different than calling Microsoft or Oracle. I like that.
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