I like the idea of a wget check, set up weekly or something similar. That
wouldn't be bad to script at all, and crontab or whatever you prefer.
As for stability, a forum for posting general thoughts and/or ratings on
particular hotfixes and releases would be a cool idea. I know Check Point
has this, and
its called SecureKnowledge, but often they keep the information "insider",
especially some of the most critical. I wonder if it was kept to strictly
ratings on the various components, if that would infringe? Probably, yet
still, it may be worth a shot asking Check Point. It's free QA, for crying
out loud... something they need to invest more in, from my opinion! 12
HFA's, the last of which fixed 40 bugs or stability issues? Comon...!
Again, I ask, CP, are you there? <echo> With 6,000+ user database (and bugs
trying to get it to LDAP), dozens and dozens of tunnels, S.C. by the
thousands, and policies and rulebases that are gigantic, I can't risk just
winging it on a particular release.
Regards,
Matt Goddard
Security Information Team
Schneider National, Inc.
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And the main point of my reply seems to have gone unnoticed - is there an
HFA release notification system? There is not, at least according to the
Checkpoint tech support person I spoke with.
Off the top of my head, I'm thinking a low-tech workaround is to script out
some automated parsing of wget returns to trigger an email when an new HFA
is available. But we'll have to see how it goes. If it works, it might get
close to knowing the "release date" Matt mentions. Or would it? What would
satisfy the "stability" requirement?
Regards,
Ron
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From: <GoddardM AT schneider DOT com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FW-1] HFA's for R55
> Arrrrgghhh! ;-)
>
> All this started with me asking about HFA's (notice I am doing the
> apostrophe on purpose now, heh!). If anyone still cares, I think we are
> going to go with HFA12, and wait a couple of weeks before doing so. I
> never
> did find out a way to determine release dates, stability, etc. This would
> be a great idea for someone with a site to do, though, as many people
> expressed interest! Check Point, are you listening??
>
> Sooooooooo... a lisp, an eclipse, a ellipsis, or an ellipse - thank you
> for
> the clarification. ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Matt Goddard
> Security Information Team
> Schneider National, Inc.
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>
>
> Actually, you're talking about an "ellipsis".
>
> An ellipse is a special kind of curve, see the link:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Ellipse.html
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> [mailto:FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM] On Behalf Of Joe
> Matusiewicz
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:04 AM
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> At 06:50 PM 12/21/2004, you wrote:
>>An ellipse is three periods... ;-)
>
> If it's at the end of a sentence it uses four....
>
> -- Joe
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