[stancounty]

Thanks for this. We too are looking at CentOS as a useful alternative for our lab\training environment. In production we run SPLAT. However, in the lab, this particular off-the-shelf hardware (it's just a Shuttle machine with one onboard and one two port Intel NIC ) seems to have issues with SPLAT. It starts to run the installer and then just reboots. Hardware problems? Perhaps...but every Linux distro I throw on it runs just fine.

We're looking for a method to run a CP NGX R65 setup in our lab for a limited period of time (with Checkpoints licensing and the expense, it's unfortunate, but we couldn't afford to license our lab environment on a full-time basis). I wish Checkpoint would loosen up their licensing to support a non-production environment at little or no cost. As it is, if I recall, I can get 15 days of unlimited use out of the product if I don't register the system. If I register with Checkpoint, that can be bumped to 30 days, but then I'd not be able to use the provided certificate keys ever again...even if I reinstall. Anyone have any experience with this particular aspect of licensing?

In any case, just want to get some experience with NGX R65 before we take the plunge and upgrade our Gateways and SmartCenter Server from NG to NGX.

Thanks in Advance...

-Stancounty