Hi Erik,
I am sure it is a great product, but am just really frustrated with the
Linux version. I now have it running happily under NT and will see how that
goes..
I would be interested in running under solaris. I can't buy an Ultra, my
boss has a tight wallet :-) I would however be interested in running it on
solaris x86. Have you had any experience running it under solaris is intel
with regard to stability?
Kind regards,
Steve
> 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
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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