If you are thinking of doing this you should look at the Nokia 
platform.  Theoretically a UNIX system should be able to do this with 
gated, but we have had problems getting this to run on 64 bit Kernels of 
Solaris 2.7 boxes.

If it is at all possible you should avoid doing this.  It is not considered 
good practice to have something automatically updating the routing of your 
firewall.  If you are putting them somewhere where you need to put OSPF on 
them the chances are you may not need a statefull inspection firewall there 
and a natural firewall, using acls and route maps may be sufficient.

But for certain situations it may be unavoidable or necessary at least in 
the short term.  I would only do it if both sides of the Firewall are 
administratively controlled by trusted parties.  And use MD5 
authentication.  Also, limit your ospf-sources to only the routers you are 
neighboring with.

At 04:37 PM 3/6/01 +0000, R M wrote:


>All
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>Can CheckPoint FireWall-1 on UNIX/NT platforms participate within an OSPF 
>environment and if so would it be recommended?
>
>Thanks in advance
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