[SunHELP] Netra X1 to 32-bit mode

[Edward Chase]

Our reseller hasn't given FW-1 NG it's blessing yet.

I guess we'll go on with the current configuration until our reseller feels 
that FW-1 NG is ready for prime time and we upgrade to it.

Thanks anyway.


At 11:28 AM 9/6/2001 -0700, Greg wrote:
>Edward Chase wrote:
>
>>We've recently bought a Netra X1 to be a log server for our firewall.
>>Unfortunately we found that Checkpoint Firewall-1 v4.1 does not support 
>>the preloaded Solaris 2.8
>
> >
>
>>We have been told unofficially that others are running their log servers 
>>on Solaris 2.8 machines, however the machine has to be running in 32-bit mode.
>
>
>That only works on platforms that can run 32-bit kernels which
>pretty much excludes all of the new machines.
>
>>How do I fireup the Netra X1 into "32-bit mode"?
>
>
>You can't, Sun does not support 32-bit kernels on new
>platforms.  According to Checkpoint's web page the current
>version will work with 64-bit kernels, try that instead.
>
>   http://www.checkpoint.com/products/firewall-1/sysrequire.html
>
>-greg

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