Hello! We have a customer who is about to upgrade an old FW-1 to VPN-1/FW-1 NG FP3. They have some money left in their budget for this year so they are thinking about making the new firewall a cluster. Both for reasons of high availability and load sharing.
When I checked clustered solutions earlier, there were only two options as I recall: 1. You bought a cluster license, that was cheaper than a full license. 2. You optionally bought a high availability module. I don't understand how the licensing works now. I need some fast answers because the customer needs time to decide and purchase before the holidays. I'm hoping someone on the list has recent knowledge of licensing issues. Exactly which components (I would really appreciate the CheckPoint part numbers if possible) are needed for: A: A cluster with only failover functionality? B: A cluster with both failover and load sharing functionality? The base firewall they have bought so far is the following: LS-CPFW-EPC-U Uppgrade to NG CPVP-VEE-U-NG VPN-1/FW-1 CPMP-SPL-MEDIA-1-NG Linux SecurePlatform CPMP-PPK-1-NG Performance Pack Will they have to buy another (full?) VPN-1/FW-1 license, plus a SmartCenter license (and what is the difference between SmartCenter and SmartCenter Pro) plus a ClusterXL license? Thanks! -- Peter Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CCIE #8963 Leissner Data AB +46 520 30000 ================================================= 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] =================================================
