Ganesharatnam C wrote:
I am not looking at the general comparison of SPLAT documents which states price/performance factor. I was hoping anyone can highlight issues which are not on the datasheet such as, dynamic routing, backup and restore, updates, online support(Nokia support are way off better than Checkpoint when it comes to end-users seeking for immediate help), etc...
I can tell you about SPLAT, but not really give you a great comparison to Nokia's platform as it has been about 3 years since I last worked with it.
Dynamic routing: I've been using zebra and the associated ripd and ospfd binaries on SPLAT for handling dynamic routing and default route distribution to my firm's WAN without major issues, even before they were made part of the SPLAT distribution. I'm more comfortable configuring these things from the command line rather than a GUI, whereas I believe Nokia's Voyager is entirely GUI-based. Still, once you get the idea of how it works (don't look for CHeck Point to provide reliable documentation, it's non-existant), there's not much to it.
Backup and restore: the beauty of SPLAT is that if I lose a box, I can dump the image to a new box in 10 minutes, spend another 10 minutes performing basic configuration, and then push the policy to it. Getting it up and running is very simple.
Updates: Check Point releases updates for SPLAT quite frequently. My gripes in this area are that they don't keep User Center up-to-date (they're up to HFA 07 on NG AI R55 but still only show HFA 04 on User Center; I go through my SE for all support issues). Their documentation for non-major releases is awful, and I maintain a development lab to test everything I'm considering for production-wide deployment because as with any software vendor, a fix for one issue could introduce a host of other problems.
Online support: for me, it's a mish mash of CP's knowledge base, Google searches, newsgroups and online mailing lists. More often than not, this gets me the answers I need.
If there's anything else you'd like to know, just ask.
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