Matthew,
I have seen Checkpoint on a number of platforms, and IMHO the current solution we have here using Checkpoint on Nokia boxes works great. The install is dead easy and they have performed faultlessly. We are only using low end ones, but they cope quite well. Under the hood it seems to be a hardened BSD variant, running checkpoint on the top. The actual hardware itself looks Intel so it's even possible you could run up the IPSO (Nokia OS) on a standard Intel Box (Thoughts on this would be interesting).
As for other FW on Intel, depends on the budget you've got to play with. If you're looking for free, IPChains will do the job, but if the budget extends further lash out on the Nokias.
Regards,
Luke Butcher
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From: Matthew Isaacs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:13 PM
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Subject: What is best...
With fear of starting a barrage of emails.... Or sounding ignorant but would like to get feed back from some people with experience in wide range of scenarios.
Looking at firewalls, what I'd like to know is what the best scenario is, Please no personal opinions.
CP FW -1 4.1 running on Solaris with SUN hardware
CP FW -1 4.1 running on Solaris with Intel hardware
CP FW -1 4.1 running on Windows
Any other fw running on intel
Currently running CP FW-1 4.1 on solaris with Sun hardware is currently cpu bound.
Need to be able to manage Bandwidth as well either from same box or possible another.
Sites where there is some data showing tests etc would be good...
Matthew
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