The Check Point Nokia relationship has always been a
troubled one, polluted by personalities but the bottom
line is the. Nokia and Check Point are engaged in
large accounts on a daily basis. They have each become
such a large part of each others' business that
terminating the relationship would not be cost
effective.
--- Thomas Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bolo,
>
> I agree that Nokia is a good product, but Checkpoint
> and Nokia have not
> exactly been the best of friends lately.
> I hear the relationship is waning, possibly nearing
> an end (have not been
> able to fully validate this).
>
> I fear the huge installs out there that will
> eventually have to drop in new
> boxes to support their networks.
>
>
> Thomas Poole
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rogue Bolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:12 AM
> To: Scott Becker; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [FW1] Nokia: Possible serious bug in
> IPSO Voyager
> interface.
>
>
>
> Disappointed with Nokia's attitude toward support?
> Why
> rely on the VAR? Did you BUY direct support? Are you
> smoking crack? Nokia's support is the best there has
> ever been for Check Point, not to mention their own
> products. I am sure that there are individuals on
> the
> support desk that have not ever run across this
> static
> route issue. That does not mean by any stretch of
> the
> imagination that Nokia has turned a blind eye to the
> issue. I am certain that there is no "hard coded"
> restriction in IPSO regarding static routes. Yes, it
> is buggy, yes it could be better, but as I have
> mentioned previously the addstatic tool available
> via
> resolution definitely fixes this and definitely
> works.
> I believe the problem is tied to the relationship
> between the Voyager CGI-BINs and the configuration
> database, not an integral flaw. As with any product
> there is a wide range of skills sets not just with
> Nokia VARs but also with the Tier 1 support people
> at
> Nokia. It would be impossible for an organization
> that
> has grown to this level in this short a time to have
> Jerald Josephs and Phoneboy clones sitting at every
> support desk. I find it interesting that the big
> organizations and seasoned professionals do not have
> the kind of issues that others do, maybe they take
> the
> time to know a product rather than just become
> familiar with it. <endflame>
> --- Scott Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, i am dissapointed as well with Nokia's
> > attitude toward support, why do
> > they want us to rely on their VAR ?
> >
> > Why can't they support it on their own ?
> >
> > I have to say that the Nokia platform is really
> cool
> > and we like it a lot.
> > However, for such a good product their support is
> > really down the tubes.
> >
> > Dissapointed.
> >
> >
> > From: "McMeekin, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> > Cristian Nicolae
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: RE: [FW1] Nokia: Possible serious bug in
> > IPSO Voyager interface.
> > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:43:07 -0000
> >
> >
> > Thanks for this RB - I'll check it out.
> >
> > Further to this, I got a response from my VAR on
> > this. Apparently Nokia
> > declined to give out an official announcement on
> > this but what they did say
> > was that they are aware of a flaw in the voyager
> > interface that could be in
> > some way linked to the way Netscape caches pages.
> > They apparently said that
> > you are restricted to 64 static routes in the
> > interface, but after that
> > anything goes... I wasn't very happy with that to
> be
> > honest - god knows what
> > was going through the developers minds to put in a
> > hard coded restriction
> > like that if that's true.
> >
> > What they DID say was that this bug would be
> > addressed in IPSO release v3.3,
> > which should be available in the next few weeks
> > sometime, and that they
> > recommended upgrading to that version when
> possible.
> >
> > I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed in Nokia's
> > attitude on this. As far as
> > I'm concerned, any alledged bug that causes
> routing
> > entries to become
> > disabled is, in my view very serious - if CISCO
> > routers had a bug that
> > caused routes to vanish, you'd be damn sure that
> > CISCO would move hell and
> > high water to reassure people that it would be
> fixed
> > immediately, and they'd
> > be releasing announcements to reduce the exposure
> of
> > people using their
> > products. I don't want anyone to take this out of
> > context - this has only
> > happened twice in 2 years of using the Nokia IP
> > range, but twice is one more
> > than a "flash in the pan" incident. I've grown to
> > trust and respect the
> > Nokia product range as being of a cut above the
> rest
> > in both quality of
> > product, and also quality of support. "Oh we think
> > the next release will fix
> > it - wait till then, and by the way, we're not
> going
> > to tell anyone else
> > about it" is an unacceptable response, especially
> > considering even Micro$oft
> > release immediate hotfixes for bugs that impact
> > service.
> >
> > Disappointed,
> >
> > Scott.
> >
> > -============================-
> > Scott McMeekin (x25086)
> > Senior Technical Analyst
> > IT Telecoms
> > The Royal Bank of Scotland
> > Phone: +44(0)1315235086
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rogue Bolo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 3:29 PM
> > > To: Cristian Nicolae; McMeekin, Scott
> > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: Re: [FW1] Nokia: Possible serious bug
> in
> > IPSO Voyager
> > > interface.
> > >
> > >
> > > *** Warning : This message originates from the
> > Internet ***
> > >
> > > Using Voyager to add static routes is not a
> > generally
> > > reliable mechanism. I suggest that you use the
> > > addstatic utility which is available from the
> > support
> > > site. It lets you import a flat file of static
> > routes
> > > and correctly inserts them into the
> configuration
> > > database. If you are extremely careful, you can
> > > manually edit the active.db and initial.db
> files
> > to
> > > add static routes. If this is not done properly
> > the
> > > routes will not stick. Voyager should not be
> > relied
> > > upon for detail of static route information,
> > rather
> > > the show routes from iclid.
> > >
> > > --- Cristian Nicolae
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Scott,
> > > > I am running the same version of IPSO and
> once
> > I had
> > > > a situation similar
> > > > to yours.
> > > > I have about 12 static routes configured on
> the
> > box.
> > > >
> > > > Once it happened to me that one was lost.
> > > > As it only happened to me once I didn't payed
> > too
> > > > much attention.
> > > > One lesson I learned from then was to look
> very
> > > > carefully at the static
> > > > routing table after a new static route is
> added
> > and
> > > > afterwards saved in
> > > > Voyager.
> > > >
> > > > Have you static routes disspeared after the
> > routing
> > > > table was changed
> > > > somehow in Nokia
> > > > (add or remove a route)?
> > > >
> > > > Cristian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "McMeekin, Scott" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am unable to reproduce this problem, but
> > it's
> > > > happened twice now and it's
> > > > > causing real concern. Has anyone else who
> is
> > > > running Nokia firewalls ever
> > > > > experienced an inexplicable loss of a
> > variable
> > > > number of static routes? I'm
> > > > > using F-secure ssh v1.0 and Netscape
> > Navigator to
> > > > securely forward the http
> > > > > Voyager interface to an IP440 running IPSO
> > 3.2.1.
> > > > >
> > > > > What happened was at some point in the last
> > couple
> > > > of days I've been using
> > > > > the voyager interface to look at a few
> things
> > (no
> > > > changes were made). Today
> > > > > I get a call to say some connectivity has
> > been
> > > > lost, and on checking various
> > > > > routing tables in other routers, certain
> > routes
> > > > appeared to have vanished. I
> > > > > checked the firewall and Lo and Behold, 15
> > static
> > > > routes (which get
> > > > > redistributed internally) had vanished!
> After
> > the
> > > > initial scratching of
> > > > > heads, I restored the IPSO backup and all
> was
> > > > well, however this a serious
> > > > > enough occurance to merit immediate and
> > thorough
> > > > investigation.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone experienced this before I go wading
> > into
> > > > the support channels?
> > > > >
> > > > > Many thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Scott.
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