RE: Firewall recommendations?

[Kevin Saenz <ksaenz () spinaweb com au>]

Really CheckPoint-1 Depends on what operating system it is installed
on. I have had really bad experiences (performance wise) when it was
installed on a windows machine. I have never had any real complaints
with PIX. It was built for firewalling. I cannot give you any
information on NetScreen.

Kevin
>   When I found myself stuck with NetScreen, in November of
> 1999, having come from a PIX environment, I pretty quickly
> built a shopping list of things that I felt they needed to
> fix or, in some cases, implement.
>   I stumbled across my list around September of 2000.  At 
> least 80% of the items on my list had been addressed and
> resolved, resulting in a substantially more mature product.
>
>   It's almost two years since I last had access to a NetScreen;
> I'm working with CheckPoint's FW-1 these days.  So far, I've 
> seen little in the way of extra benefits to offset FW-1's greater 
> complexity and fragility.
>
> David Gillett