Jeremy Lieb a écrit :
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 :-)
hi,
there are pros and cons regarding using or not using splat.
the cons are IMHO :
- drivers
- you cannot install some specific stuffs
- the HCL is not that big.
pros :
- fully integrated
- most all features you need for the firewall are included.
- you have a nice web gui (is it a pro or a con ...).
You can also find some other pros and cons to RHEL3.
The only issue I had so far was that with real linux issues, it's not
easy to get a proper response
from checkpoint. I had it several times when a configuration was quite
strange (interface not
active after boot, snmp didn't work good), and sometimes you have to
look for a workaround
because the only solution proposed by checkpoint is to reinstall the
whole stuff.
Thanks
Jeremy Lieb CCSE+NGX, CCSE-NGX
Firewall Administrator
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