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

[Dean Cunningham <Dean.Cunningham@FW1-NOSPAMew.govt.nz>]

I do not remember the last time I had to reboot the NT firewall to fix a
problem. I think it was back in 1999 with V3.x
Performance has always been a known issue , but if you do *not* have
performance needs the arguement is irrelevant. Who needs a V* when 4cyl does
you just fine.
It has some known OS security issues but most OSs do.

It all depends on the business needs and the overall cost to purchase and
maintain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DeHerrera [mailto:paul.deherrera@lsbc.com]
Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 10:03 AM
To: Ralph Forsythe; Firewall-1 Mailinglist Digest
Subject: 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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