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Rename the fw_w2k.sys and it will install fine. I have seen this before and that is what I have had to do. james ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aeon Hale" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE > I"m trying to load NG FR1 on 2k and i'm getting "unable to rename > fw_w2k.sys" during the install. Before that, I received an error > "cannot load Fw kernel". Any ideas? I have sucessfully installed NG on > 2k before this, but this server is giving me grief. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Oryszczyn [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE > > > I think they are Crazy. I have Implement NG FR1 and it works great. I > have > put it on a W2k machine with no problems. NG without FR1 is very buggy > and > unstable, but I feel that NG FR1 is stable. > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Mann" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:39 PM > Subject: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE > > > > I caught the tail end of this thread. Could someone please email the > > complete discussion? > > > > We were going to implement NG within the month... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Zeltser, Roman > > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:13 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE!!! Re: WAS Is NG ready for > general > > use ? > > > > My coworkers said: do not run NG on Wintel! > > > > ********************************** > > Roman Zeltser, > > @National Computer Center, > > RSIS & DNE > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Whitworth [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:51 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FW-1] NG - UNACCEPTABLE!!! Re: WAS Is NG ready for general > use > > ? > > Importance: High > > > > > > I know someone asked if NG was ready for general use, and others have > > been > > asking how soon they could get it. I would like to mention some > > problems > > we've seen and see if anyone else has seen the logging issue > > specifically, > > and I would wholeheartedly say that if you upgrade - BEWARE!! > > > > We have been running FW-1 for years on multiple firewalls, all Wintel > > boxes. > > Most recently, we were on 4.1 with the latest service packs on top of > NT > > 4.0 > > SP6a. We upgraded in a rolling fashion onto clean Win2K installs and > > tried > > to import our objects/policies as instructed. Following the > instructions > > on > > how to do this and in various FAQs yielded only hours of frustration. > > We > > had to rebuild from scratch. > > > > Although we got our site-site VPNs up, we have seen a multitude of > other > > errors. DNS/AD errors via the site-to-site VPN that did not > previously > > exist, and which do not occur when tunneled alternatively via > > Netscreens. > > Securemote failures due to missing SKU line items on paid-for (not > eval) > > licenses from the Checkpoint site!!!! Intermittent object errors on > > policy > > verification on objects that have not been modified in any way. > Errors > > on > > trying to delete objects, with advice to contact technical support. > To > > top > > it off, BSODs on multiple installs of FP1. > > > > Actually, there is even one more issue we've seen which rivals the > > BSODs. > > We have "front door" and "back door" firewalls which protect different > > numbers of hosts. The front door firewalls have always had unlimited > > licenses, while the back door firewall had a 250 count license because > > we > > have roughly that many hosts. In our 4.1 and even mixed 4.1-NG > > environments, we saw no logging issues. However, as soon as we took > the > > back door firewall to NG, now when it detects "too many internal hosts > > (typically due to transient laptops), it logs an error to our central > > management station and ALL firewalls stop logging!!!!! Actually, at > > some > > point we still see logged events, but it ultimately fails and no items > > after > > that error are displayed in the gui any more. To reinitiate, you have > > to > > clear the appropriate files, CPSTOP/CPSTART, and reinstall putkeys. > > Talk > > about the most screwed up thing ever. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, and if > any > > of > > you are on this borderline, I recommend you not upgrade. We will > likely > > upgrade our license, but this is not the manner in which this should > > have > > been handled. I requested an eval license and even though Checkpoint > > technical support told me this was not the issue, and we had no > logging > > problems until the day after it expired. Same issue. > > > > These items have all been reported to and ignored by Checkpoint. > > Largely > > the reason we are evaluating other products. > > > > Mark Whitworth > > > > ================================================= > > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > > send an email to [email protected] > > in the BODY of the email add: > > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > > ================================================= > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > > please see the instructions at > > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > > ================================================= > > If you have any questions on how to change your > > subscription options, email > > [email protected] > > ================================================= > > > > ================================================= > > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > > send an email to [email protected] > > in the BODY of the email add: > > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > > ================================================= > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > > please see the instructions at > > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > > ================================================= > > If you have any questions on how to change your > > subscription options, email > > [email protected] > > ================================================= > > > > ================================================= > > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > > send an email to [email protected] > > in the BODY of the email add: > > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > > ================================================= > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > > please see the instructions at > > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > > ================================================= > > If you have any questions on how to change your > > subscription options, email > > [email protected] > > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= ================================================= To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, send an email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [email protected] =================================================
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