Re: [FW1] Checkpoint on FreeBSD - revisited

[Paul LeMahieu <lemahieu@vigeland.paradise.caltech.edu>]

> Our management server croaked the other day(NT platform, go figure), and I'm 
> looking for a low cost(free) alternative for a new management box.  I'm 
> leaning towards a *nix solution for stability and remote admin purposes.  
> Solaris on i386 came to mind, but the Checkpoint website indicates that only 
> SPARC architecture is supported.  FreeBSD seems like the only potential 
> alternative.

To the best of my knowledge, FW-1 for Solaris x86 is available. It's
on our FW-1 4.0 CD, at least. Not all the same packages are there as
for Sparc, but it includes CKPfw and CKPagent. We plan to test it out
under x86 very soon.

> If someone has an answer/alternative, I'd greatly appreciate it.  I'd 
> *really* rather not have to turn back to NT.  Damn I wish they'd write a 
> Linux port...

Unfortunately, it's probably more than a business decision. The Linux
networking stack is not STREAMS based, unlike Solaris and other supported
Unix platforms. The FW-1 kernel module is a STREAMS module. Porting to
Linux would involve either helping the completion of the Linux STREAMS
project, or doing a complete port of their code to work with the Linux
packet filtering model.

--Paul
lemahieu@paradise.caltech.edu



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