RE: Is ISA a good fit?
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:48:10 -0600
Hi Ray,
Every firewall has its strengths and weaknesses. You'll be on the other
firewall forums with new issues and say "ISA could do this, how come
this one can't?". The grass is always greener.
The protocol problem is almost always related to not understanding what
protocols are required, what is a major problem with the vendors who
assume that everyone is running behind a leaking sieve NAT server with
UPnP enabled. Firewalls required inbound and outbound access control.
ISA will support virtually all protocols if you know what protocols are
required. However, the SIP VoIP issue is one for a lot of firewalls, not
just ISA.
The devs for these products need to realize that people use firewalls
these days instead of using all public addresses on the corpnet and
routing everything through directly through a router :(
HTH,
Tom
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From: Ray Dzek [mailto:rdzek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:54 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Is ISA a good fit?
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Request For Information...
It appears that lately I seem to be finding all the things that ISA
cannot do. Is ISA supposed to be an "Enterprise" level application that
can truly support Enterprise level needs? Or am I simply just asking
too much of ISA. I am asking this sincerely. I have used MS Proxy and
ISA for several years now. Frankly, I have not really looked at other
products. But now that our business has grown, so has the complexity of
our network. I keep running into issues where ISA is a roadblock and
not a asset. Are the problems with authentication, not passing
protocols (even when defined), VOIP, etc ISA centric, or am I going to
have these same issues with any firewall product we purchase? In our
mixed environment of Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris, is ISA really a
good fit? Will there be a release of ISA that will address these issues
in the immediate future?
Thanks to all with more insight into this than I have.
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