SPLAT NGX R65 on Sun X4200-M2

[04wrangler]

I have been gifted a couple Sun X4200-M2 systems and was wanting to
run SPLAT R65 on them. However, they are not listed as supported on
Checkpoint's web page: Check Point Software: Hardware Compatibility List -

I do, however, see several posts where some are running this hardware,
apparently successfully.

What is the story here? I don't want to move my firewalls to this hardware only to have Checkpoint claim I'm running an unsupported configuration if/when
I need to call them.

Thanks,
Ken

[cciesec2006]

X4200-M2 is certified to run NGx R65 2.6 kernel ONLY.

There are several caveats that you should be aware of:

1- Mirror RAID-1 does not work very well,
2- During my test, the box crashed a few times during
high load traffics,
3- You need to disable the Nividia NICs in the BIOS or
it will cause issues with Checkpoint since these NICs
are NOT supported by Checkpoint,
4- Do NOT use SmartCenter SPLAT 2.4 kernel to manage
the X4200-M2. I run into an issue where cpd on the
X4200-M2 runs at 99% cpu utilization thus broken SIC
between the SmartCenter and the X4200-M2. Meplia,
our senior member in the group, runs into this same
issue as well.

[patrick]

Anybody are you aware of any problem with the Quad Card X4445A PCI-X and Splat 2.5 ( cassini drivers)?

Because we installed SecurePlatform 2.6 (2.6.18-22cp SMP) on a Netra X4200 M2. We are using the built-in Intel Gigabit Ethernet ports and ports from a Sun X4445A (Sun Quad GigaSwift Ethernet Card).

The problem is that both enforcement modules report all of the configured X4445A ports as being DOWN. "cphaprob -a if" also reports only two interfaces required when it should be six interfaces required.

The OS is not reporting any problems with the network cards. When I do a tcpdump on one of the DOWN interfaces, "cphaprob -a if" will report Inbound UP for a couple of seconds and then state the interface is down again.