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

[Dennis Donohue <DDonohue@FW1-NOSPAMaquion.com>]

I recently took over a position, where I inherited a FW-1 on NT solution.
About every three days or so, I have to re-boot the machine, because there
is some process that runs in the background and ties up all of my VM as well
as system mem.

I'm looking towards purchasing a Nokia box.

I do, however, have a question - 
If I use that Nokia box as my firewall, and would like to set up the smaller
version of that box at a remote site (for an encrypted tunnel), how intense
is the set-up of the second appliance, and how difficult will it be to
locate the original?

Dennis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ianc@buzzsaw.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: 'Firewall-1 Mailinglist Digest'
> Subject: RE: [FW1] Re: Nokia vs NT (and solaris, just for kicks)
> 
> 
> 
> People love to diss NT, but I'll second the reliability 
> business. I've been
> running from 2 to 4 FW modules and a managment console on NT 
> for a year and
> a half; both 4 and 4.1. I have NEVER had to reboot a FW because of
> instability at any time.
> 
> Ian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:Dean.Cunningham@ew.govt.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:40 PM
> To: 'Firewall-1 Mailinglist Digest'
> Subject: RE: [FW1] Re: Nokia vs NT (and solaris, just for kicks)
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> http://www.lsbc.com
>> 
> 
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