"He believes there are huge dangers due to the NIC driver and driver support
in general."
Dangers? How so? Once the thing is installed, it's installed. If there was
any kind of "danger" we would be reading about it on Secunia.
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux for just about everything (200+ servers) but
we would never consider it for the firewalls. Using the vendor-supplied OS
promotes stability and reliability with these specialized applications
called "firewalls."
Ray
From: Jeremy Lieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FW-1] SPLAT versus RHEL 3.0
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:40:54 -0400
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
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