Hands On Experience: Free Tools for Everybody

[pdpita]

I don't know if it well known that you can easily make some hand-on experience with Check Point's products without to have extra hardware at all; simply using your good'ol PC.
Anyway I suggest to you to download the virtualization tools of VMWare and the already prepared Check Point appliance from VMWare's web site:

VMWare Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

It's free and you can use it to "play" already generated virtual appliances.

VMWare Server: http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

It's free and you can use it to "play" already generated virtual appliances, or
to install from scratch new virtual appliances. For example I use it to install from scratch a Windows 2003 Standard Server with AD and Sofaware SMP without any problem and 100% OK.

VMWare Appliances: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/

A list of already prepared and tested virtual appliances. Here is the Check Point NGX R60A on SPLAT: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliance...heckpoint.html.

I have a 2,8 GHz Pentium with 1GB RAM and I can run at least three virtual appliances at the same time.

I hope this will be useful to you too.

Ciao

PDPITA

[tdr125]

Yes , It's been already posted! Thank you

And now .. Paesano language mode ON !
Ciao,
Ho provato a usare la macchina virtuale gia' bella e pronta ma secondo me non conviene. E' meglio usare la versione full di vmware e creare una piccola rete virtuale per fare le prove. Su un portatile ho installato lo splat con 3 ethernet e altrettante macchine virtuali windows, questo per simulare una intranet, una dmz e una uscita virtuale sulla rete. Questo con un intel centrino con 1 GB di ram. Per lo splat bastano 128 mega di ram e anche le macchine windows xp con requisiti minimi. Tutto ok.
Mentre con la macchina virtuale pre-confezionata non sono riuscito a cambiare le impostazioni di rete in vmware. Cmq meglio fare le installazioni da zero. Sto' checkpoint non e' difficile, il problema e' memorizzare tutti i comandi e le opzioni.

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[philuxe]

we cant download the appliance anymore, if anyone knows where I could get it ....

thanks in advance