Need some checkpoint advice plz
Right now I'm running FW-1 v 4.1. I'd like to upgrade to NG. But I'd like to do it in a test environment before I do it in production. There are also some things I'd like to mess around with with FW-1 in general, but I'm not going to do it on our active server. I talked to CP, and they said that I could get an eval version to run tests on. But they said that I could not run the upgrade from 4.1 to NG on the eval version.
CP's licensing makes the product bound to the IP address, so its not like I could just install the product elsewhere and try it out. I'd like to have the test server have access to the internet, but cant do that because of the IP licensing. I can't put a proxy in front of the CP machine to hide its IP, because all our external IPs are in the same range (see where the problem there is?)
So does anyone have a decent method for testing CP's FW-1?
Thanks