SCS version 5.0 is actually a very pleasant GUI. I have not the experience with CP but SCS I have found to be very good for medium size companies. If you start getting into the larger companies then you need to use multiple FW with each FW handling different traffic (ie mail, http, ftp, etc.)
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At 10:45 06.06.2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Ivan Fox wrote:
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>> Can Sidewinder replace Check Point? Any comments/suggestions are greatly
>> appreciated.
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>They are both pretty bad, but at least Checkpoint's has a nice GUI and
>(mostly) does what it is supposed to.
>Sidewinder has nicer specs, although it is really a big piece of junk
>made out of obsolete software on top of a tampered, once nice but now
>mostly obsolete OS (BSDi 2.0, two version behind recent releases).
Sidewinder is based on BSDI 4.1
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