Vendor

Paktronix Systems

Axent

Check Point

Cisco

Product

PakSecured Firewall

Raptor Firewall

Firewall-1

PIX

Hardware platform

All Linux CPU's

Sun Ultra II

Sun Ultra II

Cisco 520

OSes supported

PakSecured Linux

NT4.0, HP-UX

NT, AIX, HP UX, Solaris

None

Firewall Access-Control Features:

Time of day filtering

Yes

No

Yes

No

URL filtering

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Port/network address translation

Yes/Yes

Yes/Yes

Yes/Yes

Yes/Yes

Event notifiaction via SNMP traps/

e-mail/customized script

Y/Y/Y

Y/Y/Y

Y/Y/Y

Y/Y/N

Logging/reporting:

Usage accounting

Y

Y

Y

Y

Log message sorting/filtering

Y/Y

Y/Y

N/Y

Y/Y

Log file format

Syslog

ASCII

Flat

Syslog

VPN hardware:

IPSec encryption

algorithms supported

DES, 3DES

N/A

DES, 3DES

DES, 3DES

IPSec authentication

supported

DSS, SHA,

X.509 v3 certificates

N/A

MD5, SHA-1

MD5, SHA-1

IKE support

Yes

N/A

Yes

Yes

ICSA-certified IPSec

Yes

N/A

Yes

In Progress

Other authentication

supported

RADIUS

N/A

None

MD5

Key exchange methods supported

Preshared,

ISAKMP/Oakley

N/A

FWZ

Preshared,

Diffie-Hellman

Price:

$2,500-$11,500

$2,500-$15,000

$2,995-$18,995

$9,000-$23,000

Hardware Included:

Yes

No

No

Yes