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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [FW1] Nokia vs. NT
Redundancy yes, load balancing no. At least not yet.... Nokia's are just PCs with fancy, small, rackmountable boxes, running FreeBSD. They are reliable, and can be made into a fault tolerant pair, but then so can NT and the other platforms, + you can load share using Stonebeat. If I had to spec up firewalls again, I'd probably choose NT, as Nokia did seem rather expensive for the task in hand, and benchmarks show that the Nokia platform is actually slower than the equivalent PC running NT. Then again, I'd probably change my mind, as the Nokia's are very easy to setup - stick them in, pre-hardened, load up firewall + the licenses and away you go. Saves faffing around with NT, but if you already know how to harden NT, it doesn't take too long to faff around with it ! Stick with what you know.... it will cost you less ! ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Anderson <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 15 February 2001 16:51 Subject: [FW1] Nokia vs. NT > > We are looking into switching our existing Firewall platform from NT/Win2K > to Nokia. I am curious to see how those of you using Checkpoint on Nokia > like it. > We are hoping that this switch will lower down time and decrease > administrative overhead. The specific model we are planning to purchase is > the Nokia 440. We plan to purchase two to provide load balancing and > redundancy. > Of course our vendor likes our plan but I want to hear from some admins that > are actually supporting this platform. Thanks in advance! > > Tim Anderson > > > ============================================================================ ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ============================================================================ ==== > ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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