[ILUG] Firewall question ...

[Mark Kilmartin]

I have no personal experience of setting up FW1 but the experience of a
friend was that setting it up under Linux was a pain.
It worked but it was just a pain to set up.

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Fergus Donohue wrote:

> Hi Eoin,
>
> First and foremost, do you need FW-1/VPN-1? they are expensive and there
> are many excellent free alternatives. As for it running on Linux, I've
> never done it myself, but I don't see why there should be any problems.
>
> Security focus had a 3 part article on setting it up which may be of use
> to you:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=linux&content=/focus/linux/articles/checkpoint1.html
> http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=linux&content=/focus/linux/articles/checkpoint2.html
> http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=linux&content=/focus/linux/articles/checkpoint3.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Fergus.
>
> Eoin Verling wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking to get Checkpoint/VPN firewall s/w ... and am prob gonna get it for Linux.
> > Some people are saying that it shouldn't be put on Linux, and that Solaris is what it should be running on.
> >
> > Anyone had experience of using it? Surely it's not "insecure" running on Linux???
> >
> > thoughts ...
> >
> > E
> >
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