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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Check Point FW-1
To: craig@allmaui.com (Craig Cowen)
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 18:47:45 +1100 (Australia/NSW)
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In-Reply-To: <39DEBB51.E51BACFB@allmaui.com> from "Craig Cowen" at Oct 06, 2000 10:57:37 PM
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In some mail from Craig Cowen, sie said:
> 
> The big cheeses at work want to use check point instead of ipf or any
> other open source solution.
> Can anybody help me with vunerabilities to this so that I can change
> thier minds?

Tell them that IP Filter is the software which protects Firewall-1 from
the Internet when running on Solaris - you have to go with naked FW-1 on
NT.  There are two factors to this equation, however.  FW-1 is typically
deployed on Solaris/NT machines although now the Nokia box makes up a
large number of those sales.  The Nokia boxes run IPSO which was, long
ago, FreeBSD (I'm told it no longer bears much resemblence).

Darren


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