> I am planning to install Solstice Firewall 1 version 2.1 and my questions
> are
> Should I use Solaris 2.5 or Solaris 2.51 with sun4c architecture?
> Is there any patches to the Firewallsoftware?
> What services should I remove from the OS, I planned only allow SMTP and
> HTTP services threw the Firewall.
> The last question for now is which window system should I use, Openlook or
> CDE?
I work for a system integrator who resells Sun hw/sw, and we've done a
bunch of FW-1 configs. My suggestions?
1. Use 2.5.1. It's more stable and performs a bit better.
2. Not that I know of, at least for version 2.1.
3. I would remove *all* services from the firewall itself unless you
*really* need them. You can administer the firewall remotely using the
FireWall-1 remote GUI, which uses an encrypted tunnel to communicate with
the firewall.
4. I'd use OpenLook, just because it's smaller than CDE and puts a little
less load on the machine. It really doesn't matter very much.
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Mike Jones
Sr. Network Computing Advisor
UNIFIED Technologies
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