If you run the management station on Windows 2k, do you have to pay licensing 
fee to
microsoft as well?  Is linux FREE?  That's another reason to go with linux 
instead of
Microsoft or Solaris.

My .02c

Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use Windows 2000 because I can have the GUI on the box in the data center
but mainly because I can use my standard disk imaging software for DR
backups. We use ICA certificates for remote access, so it's kind of critical
that I always have a good DR backup.

I can restore the Windows image to any hardware and the Check Point stuff
keeps right on ticking once the OS handles the hardware differences. In
fact, I'm doing that tomorrow.

Mine runs OK on a 667 MHz P-III with 256 MB of RAM, but I need to up the
memory because it's sitting right at 260 MB used when nothing is open and
the box I'm on has a max of 256 MB installed (it's an old desktop that I
added mirrored drives into).

If there's any chance you will be using an Edge box, make sure your OS can
manage an Edge. The Windows ones can but I know an IPSO SmartCenter can't.
Don't know about the other OS versions, though.

Ray

>From: Scott Kellerman
>Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
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>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [FW-1] Best OS on management station.
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:07:03 +0000
>
>Hi all,
>
>Quick question. Right now I'm running two Nokia IP530's with vrrp, and
>about 12 Nokia IP130's in international offices. My management station is
>also running on a Nokia 530, and I'm going to replace the management
>station
>with a different server so I can use the 530 somewhere else. The question
>is. What do you all think is the best OS to put on the management station
>?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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