Re: [FW1] GUI Client for Linux

[Ron Atkinson <ratkinson@FW1-NOSPAMiocenter.net>]

What CheckPoint needs to do first is to actually make a real Unix version of their
GUI interface and not a WindU version. I've run HP-UX and Solaris versions of the
GUI clients and they are a wreck. Terribly slow, constant crashes, redrawing
problems, they run away with all of your memory until the client crashes, etc.
Watch the memory utilization with one running and then try to view the implied
rules. I've seen the Solaris versions use up about 300 MB or memory and then blow
up. It might work 1 out of 5 times after the disk swapping stops, but usually it
crashes.

Just starting it, quickly editing a policy, then quitting it usually works kinda
ok, but try leaving it up and doing a lot of work and it's a mess.  I would only
want CheckPoint to release a Linux version if it was a true Linux or Unix port and
not the WindU version. A Linux (or a Unix version) version would need to be as fast
or close to the speed and reliability as the MS Windows GUI clients.

Also does anyone know if WindU (I can't remember who makes that, is it Bristol) is
available for Linux? If not, then that might be why CheckPoint never released a GUI
client since they don't have native Unix versions, only WindU versions.

Ron


Hanus Adler wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:09:33AM +0200, Pasquale De Rinaldis wrote:
> > I need to install a VPN-1/Firewall-1 GUI on Linux.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me if the GUI exists that turns on Linux and if it does
> > not exist it will exit with version NG?
>
> Hi, there is no Check Point GUI for Linux. If you need it, please take
> part in the survey described below. I hope enough people vote to convice
> Check Point there actually is demand for the Linux GUI.
>
> greetings
> Hanus Adler
>
>                               HOW TO VOTE:
>
> Please all of you who would like to be able to use a Linux GUI to
> manage Check Point FireWall-1, send an email to had@integralis.cz with
> Subject: linux gui YES
>
> Those who don't want Check Point to invest time and effort into
> developing such an odd thing as a GUI for Linux, please write
> "linux gui NO" into the Subject.
>
> Final results will be posted by 3rd August. So far, 81 people voted, of
> which 79 need Linux GUI and two don't want Check Point to lose time on
> it.
>
> --
> One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
> One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
>
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