check point

First off, there are always bugs in all software products, so it is very important that you keep up your maintenance. FW1 v4.0 has gone through 6 updates. v4.1 has gone through 3. Some of the updates fixed potentially serious flaws, others were more cosmetic. See http://www.checkpoint.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi for more information. However you will need to have a current Checkpoint maintenance contract to fetch the updates.

The Nokia is simply a hardware platform implementation of FW1. It reduces the additional overhead of having to install and maintain a Sun Solaris, Microsoft NT or other server to host the firewall. In some cases that could be advantageous. I, on the otherhand, like to know what I'm running on and harden the server myself.

Hope this helps.

Hey, first off, CheckPoint FW-1 can RUN on the Nokia boxes, that's what I use, I would never recommend running it on top of an OS, that's asking for trouble. The Nokia IP 330 and 440 are ROCK-solid, that's what I'm using to secure all my enterprise-level offices as well as my web site, it's great. I love Checkpoint, and haven't really found any bugs except that Syn-Defender is a bit quirky....and there's no "exceptions" list for that module....oh well, it's a great product.

Good luck..