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RE: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?
- To: "Nir Simionovich (Rin Solo)" <nirs(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>, "Israeli Linux users list" <Linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: RE: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?
- From: "Gilad Ben-Yossef" <gilad(at-nospam)benyossef.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:13:37 +0200
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--
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gby@kagoor.com>
Phone: +972(9)9565333 ext. 230
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, while interrupts are disabled. "
-- Murphey's law of kernel programing.
> 1. CheckPoint supports RH6.0 and 6.1, officially. However, I've been
> seeing installations run on MDK, Debian, SuSE and more. They all work
> fine, giving similar results.
> 2. In terms of performance, Linux tops the OS market in this field.
> Latest tests that were done at CP had shown that Linux in some
> protocols may be 100% more efficient than Solaris and about
> 500% more efficient than NT (why do I not find that amazing :->).
:-)
> 3. I've noticed some problems when using a vanilla kernel, due to some
> issues with certain type of eepro100 cards and wake-on-lan issues.
wake-on-lan?! on a Firewall? bizzaro.. ;-)
> 4. With all things about the CheckPoint and Linux are very nice, here is
> something which is not very nice. Aparently, FW-1 has some problems
> when dealing with a Limited-IP license. CheckPoint grants the license
> for the firewall, according to the number of IP's that you use.
> For no aparent reason, when working with a limited IP license, the
> kernel tends to panic after some time, while when working with an
> evaluation license or unlimited license, there is no problem.
> I've done some digging, and aparently it may be something in the
> State-Tables, but this is not certain yet.
A little bird wispered in my ears that there exists two service packs for Fw-1.
Have you conducted the tests with the latest version?
Gilad.
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