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Summary: Another Damn Firewall Book comma
Review: Another firewall book comma
has lots and lost of information, none of which is definitive
Do yourself a favor and purchase something more precise to the firewall your trying to implement, such as the the Umer kahn book about cisco pix, or any of the other numerous titles that cover more specific ideas
buying this book is like buying The Best Damn Cookbook when your lookin for a book on baking cookies (period)overly presumptuous, grossly incomplete, less then definitive, can you tell im bored (period)
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Summary: openbsd pf?
Review: Hmm, no OpenBSD pf. So much for "period"...
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Summary: openbsd pf?
Review: Hmm, no OpenBSD pf. So much for "period"...
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Summary: openbsd pf?
Review: Hmm, no OpenBSD pf. So much for "period"...
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Summary: HOLY COW!
Review: I bought this book because in my job I have to do a lot of installations, configuration, troubleshooting, etc with the various firewalls--and becuase I thought the title was pretty funny. My book came in last week, and I've bee reading it ever since and I have to say it's AMAZING. The things is 1300 pages long and must weigh 5 pounds. It covers PIX, Check Point, ISA, Nokia better than most books just on those things. It's literally like getting 5 or 6 books in one. One of the things I really like about it is that it's much wider than most books, so you can actually lay it open flat and refer to it while doing your configs. I'm studying now for my CCSA also, and this will certainly help with that also. Thanks!
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Summary: good vendor coverage
Review: I had no idea a book on firewalls could be this big! The authors have striven to write a definitive Handbook (in the German sense of the word). It spans every major implementation, circa 2003 - Cisco, Nokia, Solairs, linux,... Which explains a substantial part of the heft. The firewall market has these major platforms, and there is enough detail on each for you to be able to install and run it.
But the book is more than a set of disparate sections on each vendor. More broadly, it goes into the theory of Intrusion Detection Systems and the common ideas behind most firewalls. You should note that the IDS topic alone is considered sufficiently important by others to have books devoted to it. The level of detail in this book about IDS is not the most comprehensive. But you'll get the gist.
So within the covers of this book, you are getting a broad scope of product information and theory. Even if the book's title is somewhat strident.
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Summary: My shelf fell off the wall!
Review: Seriously, this huge book is chock full of information on various firewall products. It is well written and technically sound. Anyone who deals with security/networks/firewalls, etc. will think this a good book. And it's huge--good thing Amazon has free shipping...
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Summary: Good, but not the best.
Review: This is a good book, but certainly not the best.
Check out Damean Welch-Abernathy's book on Firewall-1 for the really best book.
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Summary: EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about firewalls
Review: You know how sometimes you buy a book and after you're done reading it you say to yourself, "that a waste of money." You don't have to worry about that with this book. Given how much I learned from it, it actually feels like a bargain.
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