RE: [FW1] New 4.1 Purchase - Should it include SP2 ??

[Frank Darden <fdarden@FW1-NOSPAMlocked.com>]

Title: New 4.1 Purchase - Should it include SP2 ??

When you purchase FW-1 it comes with a 90 day warranty. Whoever sells you the firewall is responsible for getting the patches you need during that 90 days. You are foolish to purchase the Firewall without Software Subscription. Buy it up front, cause youll be buying it after the fact if you dont. When you purchase Software Subscription, you must goto license.checkpoint.com and register it. When you do this, you should get a login id for the support download site. And YES!! 4.1 is that bad out of the box. I would strongly recommend against running any version lower than SP2. There are well documented issues with 4.1 and 4.1 SP1.

 

 

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Kent [mailto:jkent@mainsail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:07 PM
To: Check Point FW List (E-mail)
Subject: [FW1] New 4.1 Purchase - Should it include SP2 ??

We are looking at purchasing FW-1 4.1  (for NT).. my question is, should it include the service packs that are released up to this date ? or do you still have to buy the 'software support' package ?

IF we still have to buy the package, do we receive login information so we can download and install the SPs prior to waiting the month or two or more it will take checkpoint to generate a real license ?

If we do have to wait... is 4.1 that bad out of the box ? is it actually useable ?  I don't want to recommend that we buy it if we have to wait several months before it's useable....

And last but not least... as far as licensing....   it is the external address that we should use for generating the license, correct ?

Thanks !

Jason

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