Re: [FW1] FW-1 Should we?

["Thomas Holmstrom" <holmstromse2@FW1-NOSPAMhotmail.com>]

1) Highly stable. Any issues we had were easily resolved. We run it on 2 
NT4.0 boxes. We've been pretty happy with it's stability.

2) I've had mixed experiences with their tech support people. We've been 
using checkpoint for 2 years. Most issues had to do with Securemote, not the 
FW itself which has been very reliable. It's basically like any other 
support, you just need to get on the phone with someone who knows what 
they're talking about.

3) This software is pretty intuitive, and shouldn't frustrate you. If the 
security of your company relies on this, however, you're going to want to 
get training, or a consultant to install it and show you the basics.

4) Yes, you'll be able to see what your users are doing in the Checkpoint 
Log Viewer, by IP address, and if you choose, you can make users 
authenticate to the firewall to get out to the internet. Then you can just 
see what users are going where, instead of trying to find out who has what 
IP address.

5) No major gripes. Checkpoint is always trying to improve their product.

One caveat, everyone's network is different. And in the case of Securemote, 
everyone's client machine is really different. If you want to someday do 
redundancy, content management, load balancing, ect...  you might run into 
problems. Each of these has it's own issues. Once people throw up a 
firewall, they often realize they need other 'pieces' for what they want to 
do, so plan things out accordingly.


> From: Jim Kearney <JimK@opmr.com>
> To: fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
> Subject: [FW1] FW-1 Should we?
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:24:24 -0500
>
> We are considering migrating to Firewall-1 with VPN and would like to hear
> from some of the people using it.
>
> I will not be running it on a Nokia box, it is going to be installed on an
> NEC.  I would like to hear from people who could possible address some of
> these questions.
>
> 1) Is it stable
> 2) Some tech Support experiences
> 3) Ease of use
> 4) Robustness (out of the box) will we be able to see wheat users are doing
> in real time.
> 5) Is there anything you do not like about the software.
>
> Any other expereiences would be appreciated too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Kearney
> Network Administrator
> Optimal Robotics Corp.

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