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RE: [FW1] Re: Nokia vs NT (and solaris, just for kicks)



> I really cannot agree that NT is the way to go for a firewall.
> Having used
> 3 platforms (NT, IPSO, and Solaris) my experience is that NT
> lacks in many
> areas, most notably reliability, OS security, and performance.  Our
> firewalls on NT required constant maintenence, and frequently
> would restart
> fwd on their own.  (This did not disrupt service at the time, but left
> zombie processes running that would eventually eat up memory -- this
> required a reboot.)  We also saw major performance gains moving
> to Solaris,
> just by putting in paltry Ultra5's (that's about as low as Sun will go...)
>
<SNIP>

I agree with these sentiments exactly.  I have used Checkpoint VPN1 on
IPSO, NT, Solaris and Linux.  Linux is my preference and out performs
Solaris.
NT isn't even close.

Paul DeHerrera
Large Scale Biology Corporation
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