Joop Boonen wrote:
I've just install firewall 1 version 4.1 on Suse 6.4. it works perfectly. THe only thing is that you need to have kernel 2.2.12 installed. may be Check point also delivers newer modules. According their web site it would work up to and including kernel 2.2.13.
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By the way, you need to install kernel 2.2.12 from ftp.xx.kernel.com because 2.2.12 of Suse (rpm package) doesn't compile on Suse 6.4 .
Regards,
Joop Boonen.
www.checkpoint.com
I really dislike this shameless plug because of : - firewall 1 is closed source and so not trustworthy, - as history shows on Bugtraq firewall 1 is insecure, - kernel 2.2.12 (and many others in the 2.2.x serie) are insecure, - the 2.2.12 kernel from ftp.xx.kernel.com doesn't contain the SuSE patches, - and so on. If you do not trust ipchains and Linux you might consider to audit the sources or to use OpenBSD instead. Have a look at The Linux Kernel Auditing Project (http://lkap.org/). I hope that the message of Joop Boonen is not an example for other suppliers :-(. The message is even hard to understand, does "the only down side is that the is now Linux client for Firewall one" means "`that there is not" ? No need to answer this question as it is not important at all. Regards, Fred Mobach