Checkpoint Installation

[jimytri]

Hi all,

I am new in the Checkpoint. My boss want me to step into this field. I got a 3 month trival version for R60 and the CDs. Is it any installation guide help me to go through the installaion. Thanks

Regards,
Jim Qi

[Peter]

Look for GettingStarted.pdf in the docs folder at your CD.

Anyway, it should be better to ask someone with the minimum of experience to install your firewall. You can begin to learn this thing when it will be already installed. If you try to install it without any experience you can create an important security hole...

[jimytri]

Thank you Peter. In fact, I already installed the checkpoint in the lab envirement.
I hope I could get some configuration example, such as VPN config(Checkpoint to Checkpoint, Checkpoint to PIX, VPN client to Checkpoint), Port redirect, NAT etc.

I go through some of the pdfs in the CD (include the getting start). I cannot say no use, but just help a little bit. I hope it will give me the network diagram or scenario, and following the configuraion. It will help me to undersand.

[Sergej]

Have you tryed Demo mode? You can find a lot of preconfigured rules there.
The bad thing is that there is no any explanations in focumentation what the topologies and goals of these Basic/Express/Advansed scenarious are.

[jimytri]

Yes, I did. But some of the sample are not in the Demo. Like port redirection, VPN with other firewall (PIX or NG).

[chillyjim]

There is a vpn<something>.pdf on the disk to help with the basic VPN stuff (client-to-site and chkp-to-chkp). For the Cisco vpn, the Cisco site has great instructions.