Re: [FW1] GUI Client for Linux

["Paul T. Root" <proot@FW1-NOSPAMiaces.com>]

At a Checkpoint Event in the Twin Cities last month,
Checkpoint said that there would no Unix GUI at all.
Only Windows for NG.

Ron Atkinson <ratkinson@iocenter.net> said:
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> 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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