RE: [FW1] FireWall-1 and Dual CPU machine

[Peter Lukas <plukas@FW1-NOSPAMoss.uswest.net>]

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: owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> [mailto:owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com]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:arie.gilboa@telrad.co.il]
> 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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