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Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE



Rename the fw_w2k.sys and it will install fine. I have seen this before and
that is what I have had to do.

james
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aeon Hale" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE


> I"m trying to load NG FR1 on 2k and i'm getting "unable to rename
> fw_w2k.sys" during the install.  Before that, I received an error
> "cannot load Fw kernel".  Any ideas?  I have sucessfully installed NG on
> 2k before this, but this server is giving me grief.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Oryszczyn [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE
>
>
> I think they are Crazy.  I have Implement NG FR1 and it works great. I
> have
> put it on a W2k machine with no problems.  NG without FR1 is very buggy
> and
> unstable, but I feel that NG FR1 is stable.
>
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Mann" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:39 PM
> Subject: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE
>
>
> > I caught the tail end of this thread. Could someone please email the
> > complete discussion?
> >
> > We were going to implement NG within the month...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Zeltser, Roman
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:13 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE!!! Re: WAS Is NG ready for
> general
> > use ?
> >
> > My coworkers said: do not run NG on Wintel!
> >
> > **********************************
> > Roman Zeltser,
> > @National Computer Center,
> > RSIS & DNE
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Whitworth [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:51 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE!!! Re: WAS Is NG ready for general
> use
> > ?
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> > I know someone asked if NG was ready for general use, and others have
> > been
> > asking how soon they could get it.  I would like to mention some
> > problems
> > we've seen and see if anyone else has seen the logging issue
> > specifically,
> > and I would wholeheartedly say that if you upgrade - BEWARE!!
> >
> > We have been running FW-1 for years on multiple firewalls, all Wintel
> > boxes.
> > Most recently, we were on 4.1 with the latest service packs on top of
> NT
> > 4.0
> > SP6a.  We upgraded in a rolling fashion onto clean Win2K installs and
> > tried
> > to import our objects/policies as instructed. Following the
> instructions
> > on
> > how to do this and in various FAQs yielded only hours of frustration.
> > We
> > had to rebuild from scratch.
> >
> > Although we got our site-site VPNs up, we have seen a multitude of
> other
> > errors.  DNS/AD errors via the site-to-site VPN that did not
> previously
> > exist, and which do not occur when tunneled alternatively via
> > Netscreens.
> > Securemote failures due to missing SKU line items on paid-for (not
> eval)
> > licenses from the Checkpoint site!!!!  Intermittent object errors on
> > policy
> > verification on objects that have not been modified in any way.
> Errors
> > on
> > trying to delete objects, with advice to contact technical support.
> To
> > top
> > it off, BSODs on multiple installs of FP1.
> >
> > Actually, there is even one more issue we've seen which rivals the
> > BSODs.
> > We have "front door" and "back door" firewalls which protect different
> > numbers of hosts.  The front door firewalls have always had unlimited
> > licenses, while the back door firewall had a 250 count license because
> > we
> > have roughly that many hosts.  In our 4.1 and even mixed 4.1-NG
> > environments, we saw no logging issues.  However, as soon as we took
> the
> > back door firewall to NG, now when it detects "too many internal hosts
> > (typically due to transient laptops), it logs an error to our central
> > management station and ALL firewalls stop logging!!!!!  Actually, at
> > some
> > point we still see logged events, but it ultimately fails and no items
> > after
> > that error are displayed in the gui any more.  To reinitiate, you have
> > to
> > clear the appropriate files, CPSTOP/CPSTART, and reinstall putkeys.
> > Talk
> > about the most screwed up thing ever.  TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, and if
> any
> > of
> > you are on this borderline, I recommend you not upgrade.  We will
> likely
> > upgrade our license, but this is not the manner in which this should
> > have
> > been handled.  I requested an eval license and even though Checkpoint
> > technical support told me this was not the issue, and we had no
> logging
> > problems until the day after it expired.  Same issue.
> >
> > These items have all been reported to and ignored by Checkpoint.
> > Largely
> > the reason we are evaluating other products.
> >
> > Mark Whitworth
> >
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