This is being moderated as funny but I think active posters are generally too young to realize what great software WP5.1 is. You had to memorize shortcuts (or use some paper cutouts as reminders) but you learned those quickly and productivity was excellent.
Nobody worried too much about formatting, you were typin content.
i purchased checkpoint fw-1 as what i thought would be a quick, cheap and easy (according to the docs) firewall to set up for my site at work. i tried to install it on an NT box but that install failed ever time and tech support is not available unless you purchase it (remember i was trying to do this cheaply and so checkpoint said sorry no help). i thought tech support should at least be available if it wouldn't install (new NT installation, new partition, etc.) I finally gave up on the NT version and installed in for Solaris X86. That went much smoother and everything was flying along till...
i purchased the 25 user lic. version as i only needed to protect a few machines connected to the internet but the problem is that i have a complete subnet with ip's ranging from 0-255 (although less than 25 total). Checkpoint FW-1 said i had too many machines and therefore wouldn't run. I thought it was pretty stupid that it only checked for the highest and the lowest ip and took the difference as the total number of ip's being protected rather than the keeping track of the actually ip's that tried to get routed.
Checkpoint came out with a new revision (bug fixes) just after i purchased it and they told me i would have to purchase the bug fixes as i didn't buy tech support. i finally got through to some manager level person who told me that i was exactly right and i shouldn't have to pay for bug fixes and that i would be sent the update and the someone from tech support would be conacting me and would talk me through any problems i had. i never got the update but the tech support guy did call and was very helpful. he said i could fix my problem by changing all my ip's to be sequential and that it would "probably" work.
linux moto is something like "do it yourself" if i remember right. at this point i repatitioned the disc, put in my favorite linux distro, read the ip-chains and firewalling HOW-TO's and within a few hours had my firewall working like a champ. I can't say that Checkpoint FW-1 is a bad product overall, it is probably very good for large sites as the firewalls can work together for multiple gateways and all the VPN stuff but when it came down to making it happen for me, linux was the right answer. my moral for this story would have to be "never trust the easy way."
Also this was the first linux box i was able to sneak into work, other are slowly making it in now and replacing a few our older Sun workstations. The boss loves linux now.
So too get back on topic, Checkpoint FW-1 for linux could be a very good thing for a lot of companies who need some of its features but linux with ipchains will probably work for more than 98% of the site out there, IMHO.
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This is being moderated as funny but I think active posters are generally too young to realize what great software WP5.1 is. You had to memorize shortcuts (or use some paper cutouts as reminders) but you learned those quickly and productivity was excellent.
Nobody worried too much about formatting, you were typin content.
i purchased checkpoint fw-1 as what i thought would be a quick, cheap and easy (according to the docs) firewall to set up for my site at work. i tried to install it on an NT box but that install failed ever time and tech support is not available unless you purchase it (remember i was trying to do this cheaply and so checkpoint said sorry no help). i thought tech support should at least be available if it wouldn't install (new NT installation, new partition, etc.) I finally gave up on the NT version and installed in for Solaris X86. That went much smoother and everything was flying along till...
i purchased the 25 user lic. version as i only needed to protect a few machines connected to the internet but the problem is that i have a complete subnet with ip's ranging from 0-255 (although less than 25 total). Checkpoint FW-1 said i had too many machines and therefore wouldn't run. I thought it was pretty stupid that it only checked for the highest and the lowest ip and took the difference as the total number of ip's being protected rather than the keeping track of the actually ip's that tried to get routed.
Checkpoint came out with a new revision (bug fixes) just after i purchased it and they told me i would have to purchase the bug fixes as i didn't buy tech support. i finally got through to some manager level person who told me that i was exactly right and i shouldn't have to pay for bug fixes and that i would be sent the update and the someone from tech support would be conacting me and would talk me through any problems i had. i never got the update but the tech support guy did call and was very helpful. he said i could fix my problem by changing all my ip's to be sequential and that it would "probably" work.
linux moto is something like "do it yourself" if i remember right. at this point i repatitioned the disc, put in my favorite linux distro, read the ip-chains and firewalling HOW-TO's and within a few hours had my firewall working like a champ. I can't say that Checkpoint FW-1 is a bad product overall, it is probably very good for large sites as the firewalls can work together for multiple gateways and all the VPN stuff but when it came down to making it happen for me, linux was the right answer. my moral for this story would have to be "never trust the easy way."
Also this was the first linux box i was able to sneak into work, other are slowly making it in now and replacing a few our older Sun workstations. The boss loves linux now.
So too get back on topic, Checkpoint FW-1 for linux could be a very good thing for a lot of companies who need some of its features but linux with ipchains will probably work for more than 98% of the site out there, IMHO.