hi,
first of all you have to keep in mind, that this is not the main-feature of
the firewall. the firewall can do those things but it's purpose is to catch
bad packets or connections ...
further more it takes really a lot of CPU power if you want to be your fw1
a mail-relay. but there are wonderful CVP gateways out there (for example
contentwall, see www.opsec.com for more).
what about an smtp-AV-gateway? aladdin has a very good smtp-gateway
solution. then you have a dedicated machine for that ...
cheers
reinhard
At 20:38 21.12.2004, you wrote:
Hi,
Because my email server is under a lot of pressure, i'm thinking of moving
some tasks to the firewall, like the scanning of mime-types so it deletes
files with double extensions, and or sending emails to a virus-server
before sending them further.
All these features are into the firewall module but is this a good idea
(not much overhead), I'm quite new with checkpoint so can you people say
what you think about this idea.
TIA
Patrick
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