Foreword

Writing a book is hard. Writing a book about Check Point products is even harder. I should know; I did it twice. By myself. With a manual typewriter. In the snow. Barefoot. It was uphill both ways. And I liked it. Okay, maybe it didn’t happen quite that way, but writing a book on Check Point is hard.

Why is it hard? Because the product contains so much information now, getting all the details down on paper is nearly impossible. Check Point’s official documentation has grown more and more over the years, and it is now thousands of pages long. I remember the days when the product had one manual and even came on floppy disks!

I am the person behind a FireWall-1 FAQ page that used to exist on www.phoneboy.com. As of August 2005 the FireWall-1 ...

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