Really CheckPoint-1 Depends on what operating system it is installed on. I have had really bad experiences (performance wise) when it was installed on a windows machine. I have never had any real complaints with PIX. It was built for firewalling. I cannot give you any information on NetScreen.
Kevin > When I found myself stuck with NetScreen, in November of > 1999, having come from a PIX environment, I pretty quickly > built a shopping list of things that I felt they needed to > fix or, in some cases, implement. > I stumbled across my list around September of 2000. At > least 80% of the items on my list had been addressed and > resolved, resulting in a substantially more mature product. > > It's almost two years since I last had access to a NetScreen; > I'm working with CheckPoint's FW-1 these days. So far, I've > seen little in the way of extra benefits to offset FW-1's greater > complexity and fragility. > > David Gillett >
