On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 23:39, John Lindblom <[email protected]> wrote: > I think your making a good point here. I can't find any detailed specs on > the appliances but these do appear to be small boxes with no disk, cooling > or power redundancy.
The 57x and 107x are a 1.5GHz Celeron processor with 1GB RAM. > > I'm trying to determine what the benefit is going the appliance route but > not much information to be found. I would think as far as support is > concerned, a hardware failure with the appliance would be a next day > replacement requiring a rebuild. A hardware failure with an HP server > wouldn't be as drastic with hardware redundancy, a rebuild would probably > never need to be done. Something along those lines. If you can, go with a server. If you're running VMWare, you can try to install the firewall inside a VM and be done with it. > > One draw back to the HP server is not having the ability to run the HP > management agents for hardware failure notification. Right now the only > way I know of at this point is to look at the server to see hardware has > failed. Unless I'm missing something. If you can get RPMs for RHEL 5 32bit, you might try to install them and see if they work. Eugeniu Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. ================================================= 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] =================================================
