On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:45:08AM +0200, Wayne de Nobrega wrote: > In my specific case, this company is already running the Nokia solution. > For the office in my country, the local office does not want to incur the > cost of $7,000 (excluding ongoing licence costs) to install the solution > when they can install the IPTABLES version for the equivalent of $1,000 > (h/w, s/w and installation). > > The local firewall will be managed locally and has very simply rules in > place as they are not running any services behind the firewall. They > will also not be running any VPN. It is simply for connecting the local > office to the Internet, not to corporate. As long as it's always the local office running the firewall I don't see a problem with this. Make sure you've got good hardware support contracts though, or at least one spare box kicking around, as one of the benefits of the Checkpoint / Nokia solution is the s/w and h/w support. > Do you have any more info which explains the architecture of the Nokia > IP330 and Checkpoint solution so that I can do a more technical comparison > between the two products. The information on the Nokia site is typical > marketing. I believe the Nokia product runs a customised version of > FreeBSD. Your best bet is to contact your local Checkpoint reseller, they will fall over themselves to provide you with information. <snip> -- FunkyJesus System Administration Team
