The Duke of URL: Trustix XSentry Firewall 1.5 review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 3, 2001

[ Thanks to Patrick
Mullen
for this link. ]

Daniel Christle reviews the latest version of XSentry Filewall
from Trustix, and he likes what he sees.

“XSentry Firewall is a solid offering from Trustix AS.
As you may have guessed, this is the same company that had become
famous for their distribution, Trustix Secure Linux. Obviously they
have security on the brain. It shows….”

“XSentry 1.5 is the latest offering from Trustix in the firewall
series. It comes in two licenses: 2 zone and 4 zone licenses.
Zones, referring to the area covered. The 4 zone license being
aimed at companies that run a series of servers that perform
specific tasks such as web, mail, or FTP. The two zone license is
aimed at smaller companies that have multi-purpose servers. There
are also some feature differences between the two that need to be
considered as well. The 2 zone license doesn’t allow port
forwarding and has only limited Masquerading ability(no rule
setting for outbound traffic).”

“What I liked about XSentry is that you can configure the
firewall from a workstation very easily. There is very little to be
done on the server itself. While other firewall suites have this
functionality, Trustix has made the job very easy and intuitive.
Great for the stressed system administrator.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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