RE: Offload from the AS/400

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From:   Blair Wyman [SMTP:wyman@VNET.IBM.COM]
Sent:   Friday, November 07, 1997 12:21 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Offload from the AS/400

Excerpts from midrange-l: 7-Nov-97 Re: Offload from the AS/400 Denis
Robitaille@Cascade (738*)

> The new IPCS Firewall is proven!!! Come on, I like, mean love, the
> AS/400 to but lets not lie about it (let the NT lovers do it). Any 
time
> I here that a 3 month old product is proven, that, for me, put a 
shadow
> of doubt on every else that the person saied.

"Proven" is a loaded word, you betcha.  :)

FWIW, as the firewall was approaching completion here in Rochester, the
developers held an invitational, encouraging anyone on-site to attempt
to hack through it.

Blair,

I thought the Firewall code was 'ported' from an existing product, 
hence you could in a sense claim it was proven ?


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