Fred Mobach wrote:

Joop Boonen wrote:

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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

Dear all, By the way I'm not a supplier. I think it's a very good that Linux also gets commercial products. The thing is that for now Linux doesn't yet have a open source firewall that compete with Firewall 1. Companies prefer to have supported products. Hopefully we will have an open source supported firewall soon. Like the falcon project. http://falcon.naw.de/ The Linux firewall 1 solution might be the cheaper 'unix like' solution. And the solution in comparison to windows NT. By the way Firewall 1 has about 70% of the firewall market. Regards, Joop. Can you please give me the link for: Bugtraq . By the way this email was just to share information with people. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/