Thanks. I feel the same way. Now to convince the right person :-) Jeremy Lieb CCSE+NGX, CCSE-NGX Firewall Administrator Open Text Corporation 100 Tri-State Intl Parkway Third Floor Lincolnshire IL, 60069 18472679330 ext 4295
-----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FW-1] SPLAT versus RHEL 3.0 "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 > >================================================= >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] >================================================= _________________________________________________________________ More photos; more messages; more whatever. Windows Live Hotmail - NOW with 5GB storage. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migr ation_HM_mini_5G_0907 ================================================= 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] ================================================= ================================================= 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] =================================================
