Re: [FW-1] Best OS on management station.Even less in an academic environment! Of course, it's also likely that a Windows server license is going to come with whatever server hardware you purchase.
Remember, Checkpoint only supports Red Hat 7.x and RHEL3. Red Hat 7 hasn't received an update since Dec 2003. Checkpoint doesn't specify which version of RHEL3 to use, only a kernel version, so you could probably get away with the WS version. That'll still cost you $179 US from Red Hat. If you want OS updates beyond the first year, you're going to have to pay a renewable subscription fee on top of that. Free? Not quite.. Solaris is free. You just have to buy SPARC hardware to run it! Checkpoint doesn't support Solaris x86. You could always run SecurePlatform on an x86 box too. That's the only free linux supported. Having said all that, we use Win2k boxes for our management servers. If I want another pair of eyes to look at something flakey with the OS, it's a lot easier to find 'em. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [FW-1] Best OS on management station. Of course, but it's a one-time cost of around $650 US. Averaged over the five year life of the OS it comes to thirty six cents a day. It all depends on your situation. Ray >From: cisco4ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 ><[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [FW-1] Best OS on management station. >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:44:03 -0800 > >If you run the management station on Windows 2k, do you have to pay >licensing fee to >microsoft as well? Is linux FREE? That's another reason to go with linux >instead of >Microsoft or Solaris. > >My .02c > >Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use Windows 2000 because I can have the GUI on the box in the data center >but mainly because I can use my standard disk imaging software for DR >backups. We use ICA certificates for remote access, so it's kind of >critical >that I always have a good DR backup. > >I can restore the Windows image to any hardware and the Check Point stuff >keeps right on ticking once the OS handles the hardware differences. In >fact, I'm doing that tomorrow. > >Mine runs OK on a 667 MHz P-III with 256 MB of RAM, but I need to up the >memory because it's sitting right at 260 MB used when nothing is open and >the box I'm on has a max of 256 MB installed (it's an old desktop that I >added mirrored drives into). > >If there's any chance you will be using an Edge box, make sure your OS can >manage an Edge. The Windows ones can but I know an IPSO SmartCenter can't. >Don't know about the other OS versions, though. > >Ray > > >From: Scott Kellerman > >Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 > > > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [FW-1] Best OS on management station. > >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:07:03 +0000 > > > >Hi all, > > > >Quick question. Right now I'm running two Nokia IP530's with vrrp, and > >about 12 Nokia IP130's in international offices. My management station is > >also running on a Nokia 530, and I'm going to replace the management > >station > >with a different server so I can use the 530 somewhere else. The question > >is. 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