Re: Firewall technology

On 31 Dec 2005 at 12:59, Louis Wang wrote:

> You can try FortiClient for example.
> http://www.fortinet.com/products/forticlient_old.html

It works fairly well, but doesn't have centralized management features :-(
It also has a few issues that many of the other suites seem to have resolved 
a long time ago. My personal biggest beef with the latest version of the 
forticlient is if you enable email worm detection, it continually pops up 
false positive errors when sending email from outlook 2003 (and possibly 
other mail clients), also if you need to manually add a range of ports you 
want to allow through the firewall, you're screwed. Recently did a VoIP 
deployment using the OneConnect (Nortel gear) service out of Toronto and 
during testing needed to open udp ports 40000-60000 in the Forticlient. Spoke 
with Fortinet tech support and was told I'd have to manually enter each port, 
that's almost laughable if it wasn't so serious.

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