RE: [FW1] First WinNT Firewall-1 Install - Advice?

["Dennis Pasadis" <dennis@innovativesolutions.com>]

BW:

Checkpoint recommends NT SP#5 with FW-1 SP#5 if you are running
version 4.0.  That was as of two weeks ago.  I just did it and
it works great.  One tip - make sure you install the FW software
in the default directory.  I didn't the first time and had to
re-install to be able to install the service packs.  Why do they
ask us where to put FW-1 if the SP's won't work?

I've thoroughly research the FAT vs NTFS issue.  Microsoft
and HP support engineers all recommended making the c: drive
FAT and d: and other drives NTFS.  Why?  Because it is much
easier to repair a damaged partition if it is DOS.  You can
boot from floppy and check it and copy files.  But all files
users access should be in NTFS partitions.

My tendency is to modify that recommendation on a firewall and
put NT and the FW on c: and make it NTFS.  After all, a firewall
is supposed to be secure, so why not do it that way.  There are
tools available that allow you to read and write NTFS partitions
from boot floppies.

Hope that helps....

- Dennis



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
[mailto:owner-fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com]On Behalf Of
Blazing Wolf
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:44 PM
To: FW1 List
Subject: [FW1] First WinNT Firewall-1 Install - Advice?



Greetings All,

I have 16+ firewalls builds, 5+ years installing and
managing, as well as v2.0 through v4.1 experience with
firewall-1 under my belt. All however have been with
the Sparc Sun/Solaris configuration and platform.

I'm about to build my first WinNT (x86 platform)
firewall-1 system, not my choice, but at any rate I'm
in need of any and all advice. What min service packs
are required? What disk partitioning scheme? All NTFS,
one partition, or boot FAT, with multiple NTFS
partitions? Any and all comments, pointers appreciated

BW

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