I did notice a version of the Luna VPN driver optimized for the dormant
CPU. Seeing as how a relatively fast UltraSPARC can effectively dust the
StrongARM on the Chrysalis-ITS, it may be worth a looksee for people who
ended up purchasing a multi-CPU system for their firewall...
-peter
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, William Pope wrote:
>
> I do not think that Checkpoint has released a multithreaded version of
> Firewall-1 yet. I have had some luck using pbind & renice to force the
> Checkpoint services to the second processor leaving the first for the O/S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent,
> Mike
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:59 AM
> To: 'Damon Starkey '; ''Arie Gilboa' '; ''fw-1 Mailinglis' '
> Subject: RE: [FW1] FireWall-1 and Dual CPU machine
>
>
>
> Checkpoint did release a multi-threaded device driver to accelerate
> encryption and decryption on SMP SPARC/Solaris and Windows NT systems.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Starkey
> To: 'Arie Gilboa'; 'fw-1 Mailinglis'
> Sent: 2/5/01 10:15 AM
> Subject: RE: [FW1] FireWall-1 and Dual CPU machine
>
> I was told no when I went through the Checkpoint Certification. It
> benefits from a good amount of memory.
>
> Damon Starkey
> Network Administrator
> Digital Access Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arie Gilboa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:44 AM
> To: 'fw-1 Mailinglis'
> Subject: [FW1] FireWall-1 and Dual CPU machine
>
> Hello!,
> I would like to instal CP-2000 on Dual CPU Solaris machine.
> Does CP-2000 software know to use more than one CPU ?. Is there any
> special configuration which should be done ?.
>
> Thanks,
> Arie Gilboa
>
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