The drivers issue is a complete pain, I agree with that, but SPLAT is a platform especially modified by Check Point to their firewall or SmartCenter, that guarantees a high level of security and stability.
I work for a CCSP and our CP presales guys always ask for us to suggest our customers to go with SPLAT because their testings have proved it has better performance than any other platform on which you can run Check Point. Patching is a lot easier as you apply an upgrade to OS and application together and also allows you to be sure the new patch is not going to give you a headache. Finally, using SPLAT you have a firewall deployment running entirely under a software architecture developed by the same vendor, for me that makes a lot easier to get difficult issues resolved, no matter if application or OS related, by the same support team and avoid situations in which CP support guys might give you the run around telling you "that's a platform issue". Honestly I don't have experience with RHEL deployments, usually my customers go with SPLAT, Solaris or Nokia IPSO, but I guess my arguments would be pretty much valid no matter the scenario. Just a personal opinion, hope it helps. Regards On 9/4/07, Jeremy Lieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good afternoon. I'm trying to come up with some compelling reasons to > switch from pure Enterprise Linux for our firewalls and Smart Center to > SPLAT. I've been playing around with SPLAT for months and much prefer it > to the standard RHEL Checkpoint installation but I'm running into static > from my supervisor. He believes there are huge dangers due to the NIC > driver and driver support in general. Can anybody give me some opinions > one way or another on which is the preferred method. I think I know the > answer to that. From what I've seen and heard Nokia and SPLAT in one > shape or another seem to be the majority of installs. Am I right in that > thinking? > > Our Checkpoint vendor has been trying for a few years now to convince us > to change to SPLAT. I totally agree. The last straw was some memory > issues on a few of our clusters apparently caused from some patching of > our regular RHEL OS. > > Any info or feedback will be greatly appreciated. Even if it is against > SPLAT :-) > > Thanks > > Jeremy Lieb CCSE+NGX, CCSE-NGX > Firewall Administrator > > ================================================= > 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] > ================================================= > -- Sergio Alvarez (506)8301342 ================================================= 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] =================================================
