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Re: [FW-1] Checkpoint Platform



Hi all,

Nortel ASF (Alteon Switched Firewall) is a firewall based on Alteon switch.
It is made of 2 parts:
- an SFA (switch Firewall Accelerator) which is the Alteon switch (10/100 or
GEth). These are ASICs based architecture (first generation offers 2 per
port + 2 central).
- one or several SFD (switch Firewall Director) which run CheckPoint.
Several SFD can be added in order to increase the performances.

Principle is to push the CheckPoint session table from the SFD onto the SFA
in order to profit the ASIC performances to perform the packet processing.
A new session is processed by the SFD. When this is done, later packets from
this same session will be switched directly by the SFA, with no need to
reach SFD.

Depending on the model of SFD and SFA used and the CheckPoint release,
performances can reach high levels and price too ;-)

Regards,
Arnaud


-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Behrens [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: jeudi 6 novembre 2003 14:58
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FW-1] Checkpoint Platform

> Has anyone had any experience with the Nortel Alteon Checkpoint
> firewall?
>
> We currently run it on a Solaris system and were looking at
> going to it or Linux (Red Hat) system. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Some observations:

Solaris, in my experience, is a well-performing FW-1 environment,
particulary when security servers come into play (dual-CPU helps, a lot). We
use Solaris 8 64-bit and Solaris 9 64-bit in a "minimal" (core and then
reduced further) configuration.
What makes you wish to switch?

Red Hat Linux will work, but you can't get any Red Hat support. Existing
support contracts will run out shortly. See Red Hat's announcements. I
fervently hope that CheckPoint will recertify on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3
ES (although WS would probably work for them, too).

Shawn


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