"He believes there are huge dangers due to the NIC
driver and driver support
in general."
Dangers? How so? Once the thing is installed, it's
installed. If there was
any kind of "danger" we would be reading about it
on Secunia.
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux for just about everything
(200+ servers) but
we would never consider it for the firewalls. Using the
vendor-supplied OS
promotes stability and reliability with these specialized
applications
called "firewalls."
Ray
>From: Jeremy Lieb <jlieb OPENTEXT.COM>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1
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>To: FW-1-MAILINGLISTAMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM
>Subject: [FW-1] SPLAT versus RHEL 3.0
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:40:54 -0400
>
>Good afternoon. I'm trying to come up with some
compelling reasons to
>switch from pure Enterprise Linux for our firewalls and
Smart Center to
>SPLAT. I've been playing around with SPLAT for months
and much prefer it
>to the standard RHEL Checkpoint installation but I'm
running into static
>from my supervisor. He believes there are huge dangers
due to the NIC
>driver and driver support in general. Can anybody give
me some opinions
>one way or another on which is the preferred method. I
think I know the
>answer to that. From what I've seen and heard Nokia and
SPLAT in one
>shape or another seem to be the majority of installs. Am
I right in that
>thinking?
>
>Our Checkpoint vendor has been trying for a few years
now to convince us
>to change to SPLAT. I totally agree. The last straw was
some memory
>issues on a few of our clusters apparently caused from
some patching of
>our regular RHEL OS.
>
>Any info or feedback will be greatly appreciated. Even
if it is against
>SPLAT 
>
>Thanks
>
>Jeremy Lieb CCSE+NGX, CCSE-NGX
>Firewall Administrator
>
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