Re: Solaris 10: sunscreen vs ?

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:08:03 +0000 (UTC)

Przemek Bak <przemolicc@poczta.fm.-no-spam.invalid> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|On the sun's site there is a sentence
|"Solaris 10 OS includes an enterprise firewall with IP filtering.".
|Does it refer to ipfilter ? Or is it still sunscreen ?

A modified version of ipfilter.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/cgi/xpertApp.cgi?session=10_solxpress&xpert=jbao&action=questions#7

|If it is ipfilter, does it mean that sunscreen is abandoned ?

Yes, as was announced a while ago:
        http://wwws.sun.com/software/securenet/ 

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