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10 ANTI-SPAM SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY REPORT
Test report
Introduction
The NetPilot Plus device is a compact Unified Threat Management (UTM)
unit with a sealed fascia that is ideal for sitting on a desktop or on a rack
shelf in a server room. Indeed, the only components on the front are power
and disk lights. The rear of the unit contains a PS/2 keyboard connector,
parallel port, serial connection and VGA connection, and a rocker-style
power switch. The collection of two onboard NICs plus a further one on an
expansion card allows for a variety of network set ups to be implemented.
The documentation arrived as three well written and cleanly styled A5
sized Getting Started Guides covering various aspects of the device and
a Resources CD. There were also two large manuals in folders that
provide a training course in administration of the device. During the course
of testing, the Equiinet released a new version of the Operating System,
so the device was upgraded from version 3 to version 4.
Thankfully, the interface look and feel has not really changed and the
knock-on effect in terms of the way that Spam is handled is not huge.
There are, however, significant alterations in other parts of the Operating
System, for example the firewall component has now been expanded in
response to user requests and allows a lot more control to be taken than
was previously possible.
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