Preface
Every book should have some introductory text that explains it. This book is no exception. After reading this preface, you should know the following:
How this book came to be
What this book is and what it's not
What typographical conventions are used in this book
Some of the people who made this book possible
How This Book Came to Be
After spending two years on the first edition of this book, I was relieved to finally have the book done. However, Check Point played a cruel trick on me and released FireWall-1 NG around the same time that my book came out in October 2001. That book was mostly on FireWall-1 4.1, so my book was already obsolete! People kept asking me, “So when are you going to update your book for NG?”
Another thing happened right ...
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