'RE: [Sidewinder] Upgrade'

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List:       sidewinder
Subject:    RE: [Sidewinder] Upgrade
From:       sidewinder-admin () adeptech ! com
Date:       2003-05-07 7:30:14
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	Remember that the G2 GUI have minimal requirement too.
	From the Sidewinder G2 Firewall 6.0.0.01 Release Notes: "The minimum
CPU requirement for the Windows workstation on which you install the Admin
Console software is 1 GHz."

Greetings from Chile ...
Fernando Allendes.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com [mailto:sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com]
Enviado el: Sábado, 03 de Mayo de 2003 10:58
Para: sidewinder@adeptech.com
Asunto: Re: [Sidewinder] Upgrade

In G2, the daemon that maintains the reporting database is disabled by 
default.  You can enable it from "Services 
Configuration->Servers->auditdbd" in the GUI, or with the command "cf 
server enable auditdbd" from the console.

--On Friday, May 02, 2003 4:35 PM -0500 sidewinder-admin@adeptech.com wrote:

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>       I found it to be faster than a v5.2 box.  The remote GUI for my v5.2
> boxes are pretty slow.  There is a lot of work that went into improving
> Sidewinder under the hood (proxy re-architecture, up to 4 processores, up
> to 2GB RAM, BSDI 4.3 kernel, etcetera) so saying the only difference is a
> pretty GUI and enterprise management isn't quite accurate.  Why don't you
> call Sidewinder support and see if they can help you with the reports and
> slow GUI issues?  If people don't mention to Secure Computing that the GUI
> is slow then the engineers don't give speeding up the GUI a high priority.
>
> Regards,
> Jeffery Gieser
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>                        05/02/2003 01:54          Subject:  [Sidewinder]
> Upgrade
> PM
>                        Please respond to
>                        sidewinder
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> Well, I upgraded my 5.2.1 to 6.0.0 yesterday and it was nothing like
> expected.
>
> The first part was my fault, I didn't take the time to read the minimal
> requirements for G2 and it turns out that the new release requires
> 512megs. I only had 256 in my firewall. Here's what happened
>
> 1) I installed patch 08
> 2) I installed the upgrade patch
> 3) I inserted the G2 cd, did an import on the CD and went on with the
> upgrade process
> 4) After rebooting, the upgrade crashed because I didn't have enough
> memory so it rebooted in 5.2, in failure mode
> 5) To get it to work again, I had to issue a command and then, it went
> from failure more to operational mode (5.2)
> 6) At that point, I didn't check the ACL list but I know the internet
> worked from my station so they must have been ok at that point
> 7) I added the extra 256 megs and started the upgrade again
> 8) Everything went smooth with the upgrade, the firewall rebooted a few
> times to finish with 6.0 in failure mode
> 9) I installed the new GUI, entered my key and rebooted the firewall.
>
> It's at that point that I started to freak.
>
> 10) The firewall rebooted to operational but to my big surprise, all the
> ACLs and VPN associations were gone. Only the only 2 IPFilter rules I had
> were still there. No internet connectivity, no email no DNS.   DISASTER
>
> At that point, I tough I'd be better off reinstalling fresh and redoing
> everything from scratch. I re-installed 6.0 direct from the CD and started
> fresh. I only had about a dozen firewall rules to redo so it wasn't too
> bad.
>
> So, after all, it took me about 7 hours to rebuild the entire firewall. I
> had a backup disk for my configuration so I could have gone back to 5.2
> and restored my config but I really wanted to try G2.
>
>
> So, what do I think of all this after it's all done. I've wasted my time.
>
> Unless I'm seriously missing something, except for the enterprise manager
> and the cute color icons in the ACL view, there's nothing more to G2 that
> 5.2 didn't have.  Same features, same configuration options, same
> everything. Also, the GUI now doesn't have the option to open an
> unencrypted session which makes the GUI *WAY* slower than the older one.
> It takes me 45 seconds to open the 'unbound' section of my DNS. Plus the
> GUI crashes very often.
>
> I couldn't use the GUI to configure my sendmail modules because it would
> crash all the time and it didn't save the configuration changes so I used
> pico to modify the mailertable, aliases and everything.
>
> The reports don't work either. I used to check the "gen_report -r
> vpntraffic" one in a while but, don't ask me why, they don't work with G2.
> as a matter of fact, none of the reports work, either from a SSH session
> or from the GUI.  But once again, I'm using a 'reseller' version which
> doesn't include manuals so maybe I'm missing something.
>
> So, overall I wish I'd never done that upgrade.
>
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