[lobotiger]

Just thought I'd post an update as I got an answer from a guy at my work who knows some things about Checkpoint. Turns out that inetd was kinda right in that you don't have to create a SIC if both the fw module and smartcenter are on the same box:

The SIC question only gets asked (and is only necessary) if you are installing a Firewall without SmartCenter on the same host. If SmartCenter is on the same host, you don’t need SIC (and you don’t need two different objects in your database, because it’s all on one host), because all the traffic between them is local and never travels out to the network where SIC is necessary. If you were to now add another VPN-1 Power host somewhere else, that install would prompt you for a SIC activation key, and you would need to create a separate object for that in your database to establish SIC.

LoboTiger