We are thinking of making the switch from Nokias [ip 440's] to running our firewall using secure platform on Intel hardware. In theory it sounds great, and of course the salesman made it sound like an easy transition. But I'm wondering if their are any hidden gotchas?
We are a Compaq/HP shop so we would have dual DL 380s with a 2 Ghz or higher CPU / 40 gig hard drive and 1-2 Gig of ram. Such as: 1. Is secure remote as stable and robust as a comparable Nokia appliance? 2. Almost a repeat of 1, how about uptime? are they rock-solid? 3. Just how easy is the patching? i.e., updating to the latest feature pack? 4. NG question, is the VPN client or firewall support better than 4.1? 5. Any noticeable increase in overall throughput? 6. Any problems support multiple Nics? is there a limit on the number of interfaces? 7. Just how good is the built in IDS, does it compare at all to ISS ->Realsecure? 8. How does the web interface compare to "voyager 9. Is HA better, or worse than VRRP? I'm just a little leary moving away from the Nokias, they have been rock solid for us. We are working on 300 plus days of uptime. We've had one harddrive failure in 3 yrs but other than that they have been very good to us. To switch or not, that is the question. Thanks ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
