It's a "bare metal" firewall, by which I mean it installs its own OS.
If anyone has any hands-on experience with it I'd love to hear how manageable the OS part is, what distribution it's based on, how much support is going into maintaining the patches, etc. I'm personally amazed watching Check Point dilute their product distribution through an almost unmanageable number of 3rd-party appliances, then undercut that same business by releasing a CD that effectively turns any x86 box into an appliance. - a relatively cynical Jim At 06:40 PM 5/17/2002, Simon wrote: >Is it only available for linux platform ? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Yuan >Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 3:07 AM >To: Matti Kari; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: VLAN and Checkpoint > >Check Point's latest SecurePlatform is really cool. It's a bootable CD >that will install a hardened kernel, 2.4.x as well as CP binaries. It >will also come with VLAN support. > >Jason > > > > > >Jason Yuan >Security Consultant >Niles Associates > > > >Do You Yahoo!? ><http://rd.yahoo.com/welcome/*http://launch.yahoo.com>LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! >Music Experience _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Account Management (unsubscribe, get/change password, etc) Please go to: http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
