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

["Paul DeHerrera" <paul.deherrera@FW1-NOSPAMlsbc.com>]

It's good to hear that you have accepted the fact that there are better
solutions than NT available.
I believe you will be happy with your choice.

Do you mean to set-up the second box as redundant or in a different remote
location?
Can you be more clear about "locating" the original?

Paul DeHerrera
Large Scale Biology Corporation
http://www.lsbc.com> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> [mailto:owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com]On Behalf Of
> Dennis Donohue
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:54 AM
> To: 'Ian Campbell'; 'Firewall-1 Mailinglist Digest'
> Subject: RE: [FW1] Re: Nokia vs NT (and solaris, just for kicks)
>
>
>
> 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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