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Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?



I saw FW-1 working great on Linux, fwstop made no
problems, works with 3Com 905B. And with Intel eepros.

The biggest problem is that there is no GUI for it
on Linux. There is for other UNIXes.

Should we volunteer to help CheckPoint port the GUI ?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
To: Aharon Schkolnik <aharon@health.gov.il>
Cc: Israeli Linux users list <Linux-il@linux.org.il>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?


> Hi,
> 
> Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone running Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?
> 
> Yes, I'm running it for around two weeks now. So far it's running
> absolutely fabulous. 
> 
> I did head a lot of FUD about this product (on Linux, I've been using
> Firewall-1 on other platforms for years) before installing it, but so
> far the only issue (as these things are called din corporatlandia) is
> that if you take the fw down for any reason ("./fwstop") you'll have to
> restart the network cards ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" or
> ifconfig down and up for the non RH among us) or the network cards start
> blasting you with kernel messages about some lack of memory - my guess
> is that FW-1 forgets to unregister some hook it's using. However after
> doing the restart everything is back to normal.
> 
> Nir Simyonovitch (Sorry if I didn't get your name right, dude ;-) told
> me he saw major problems using FW-1 on Linux with INTEL NICs (the
> eepro100's) so I didn't use those.
> 
> > 
> > Anyone know who provides good support in Israel ?
> 
> Artnet. http://www.artnet.co.il
> 
> > 
> > Anyone have any comments/warnings/suggestions ?
> 
> 
> Nir S. (from Artnet) cited for me some cool numbers on completely
> unofficial tests he made with FW-1 on NT, Solaris x86 and Linux. If i
> got him correctly nunberswise Linus needs not be ashamed of his beast
> l-))
> 
> Gilad.
> 
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