Steve,
Now don't get me wrong.. Firewall-1 is a great product. If you have the
option of buying an Ultra 5 with solaris on it, I would go that route.
I've never had any problems with my Sun installs. We have also had good
luck with SOlaris x86 version of FW-1.
I got my CCSE cert last year as a sort of 'just for the hell of it' for my
company, and even though the class didn't teach much, it did get me a good
handle for what you can do with fw-1. I wouldn't run anything else. I just
wouldn't do it on linux.
Don't let your issues with the linux version taint your idea of the
firewall it self. I'm sure they will make improvements and make it WORK on
linux. I don't know what they were thinking releasing it for Linux in the
shape that it is in, but it is still "beta".
If you do go the solaris x86 route or sparc solaris, call checkpoint and
explain your problems, I'm sure they would be glad to transfer the license
for you.
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Steve Babb wrote:
>
> I would have to agree. The documentation is very poor for Linux, plus more
> worrying for me is the fact I bought it as a finished product for Linux!! It
> is my first fw1 install and I am very disapointed at being sold a poor beta
> when I paid for the real thing. That said I will keep plugging away on a
> test box and let you know if I get it to stop it's panics.
>
> regards,
>
> Steve
>
> > I started out with trying this on 6.2 with the 2.2.13 kernel as they
> > recommend that kernel and says it wont work with anything newer.
> >
> > On a dual pentium III 550, with 512 megs of ram, an intel ether express
> > pro onboard, and dual eexpress off board, scsi on board but not enabled..
> >
> > First, they install fw-1 with S01 as the rc3 init.. Well duh you can't
> > load it before the network, so you have to hand move this to S15.
> >
> > With an SMP kernel, and without.. the machine kernel panics after a
> > few minutes if the firewall module is loaded.
> >
> > The logging is poor, they have barely ANY documentation on it, and after
> > trying it on redhat 6.1 and redhat 6.0, and failing on both, I've decided
> > that this beta is terrible.
> >
> > Everything you have all said is bad as well, doesn't sound like anyone can
> > get it running. What are they thinking?
> >
> >
> >
> > Erik Parker
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> >
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