Hi Marco,
You may well be on to something. Two other people have mailed me to say they
have it working well on SuSE. One is SuSE 6.2 and one 6.3. Could you tell me
what kernel version you have running with 6.3?
I'll try to download it and see if I have more success than with RedHat.
Steve
> Hi there,
>
> I�m surely not that Linux expert but what I can tell you from my todays
> "going life" is that it works on linux!
>
> OK, you all are trying to use RedHat and me, poor german guy ;-), I have
to
> use SuSE 6.3. But maybe this is the difference....
>
> I admit that I spent more time installing FW-1 on Linux than on NT or
> Solaris but what I like the most on Linux is that I can compile the kernel
> just the way I like it.
>
> Looking on the performance I can�t tell if it is "that fast" because I
never
> had it running on a Dual-PIII/500.
>
> About the rc-level script "S01fw1boot":
>
> FW-1 installed it self at rc2.d and it works even before S0xNetwork is
> started. I guess this has to be because FW-1 has to take control before
> routing is enabled.
>
> I would appreceate if more of you write down your experiance since Linux,
in
> my opinion, gives you more posibilities to "play" than OSs that are
already
> "baked".
>
> Marco
>
> > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Tony Kim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2000 20:40
> > An: Steve Babb; Erik Parker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Betreff: Re: [FW1] Fw1 on linux. Don't bother.
> >
> >
> >
> > FW-1 is out of beta...
> > http://beta.us.checkpoint.com/beta/linux/registration.nsf/Agreement
> >
> >
> > At 01:18 AM 27/05/00 , 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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