Well, this is a bit different...
THERE IS a GUI for Linux to configure the firewall, but the bastards want a
$1000 for the fucking GUI! I'm serious!
But they give the Windows GUI for free...
God, I hate Motif and the stupid licenses....
Hetz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aharon Schkolnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ury Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Gilad Ben-Yossef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Israeli Linux users list"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?
> >>>>> "Ury" == Ury Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ury> I saw FW-1 working great on Linux, fwstop made no problems,
> Ury> works with 3Com 905B. And with Intel eepros.
>
> Ury> The biggest problem is that there is no GUI for it on
> Ury> Linux. There is for other UNIXes.
>
> What do you mean no GUI ????
>
> How do you manage it ???
>
> Do you mean there is no management client for Linux ?
>
> If you are on the firewall box itself, is there no GUI ?
>
> If there is, can you not just use X to display it remotely ?
>
> I currently use that method with our Sun OS. However, we just updated
> the FW-1 version, and I was informed that I need a separate license
> in order to do that !!
>
>
>
>
> Ury> Should we volunteer to help CheckPoint port the GUI ?
>
> Ury> -- Ury Segal Aduva INC
>
> Ury> Phone: +972-3-7534300 Fax: +972-3-7534343
>
> Ury> ----- Original Message ----- From: Gilad Ben-Yossef
> Ury> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Aharon Schkolnik
> Ury> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Israeli Linux users list
> Ury> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 4:56
> Ury> PM Subject: Re: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux ?
>
>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > Anyone running Checkpoint
> >> Firewall-1 on Linux ?
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm running it for around two weeks now. So far it's
> >> running absolutely fabulous.
> >>
> >> I did head a lot of FUD about this product (on Linux, I've been
> >> using Firewall-1 on other platforms for years) before
> >> installing it, but so far the only issue (as these things are
> >> called din corporatlandia) is that if you take the fw down for
> >> any reason ("./fwstop") you'll have to restart the network
> >> cards ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" or ifconfig down and
> >> up for the non RH among us) or the network cards start blasting
> >> you with kernel messages about some lack of memory - my guess
> >> is that FW-1 forgets to unregister some hook it's
> >> using. However after doing the restart everything is back to
> >> normal.
> >>
> >> Nir Simyonovitch (Sorry if I didn't get your name right, dude
> >> ;-) told me he saw major problems using FW-1 on Linux with
> >> INTEL NICs (the eepro100's) so I didn't use those.
> >>
> >> > > Anyone know who provides good support in Israel ?
> >>
> >> Artnet. http://www.artnet.co.il
> >>
> >> > > Anyone have any comments/warnings/suggestions ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Nir S. (from Artnet) cited for me some cool numbers on
> >> completely unofficial tests he made with FW-1 on NT, Solaris
> >> x86 and Linux. If i got him correctly nunberswise Linus needs
> >> not be ashamed of his beast l-))
> >>
> >> Gilad.
> >>
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