CP Release version questions.

[melipla]

Originally Posted by chillyjim

Install VOIP_HOTFIX_1 (or 2 if its out) then try it.

I'm not following Check Point's reasoning behind branching HFA's like this. You can be on R60 HFA 02 HF-02 or R60 HFA 04. Why not call the new hotfix HFA 05? Are there so many conflicts that this can't be merged back into the main HFA tree?

Then there's R61, which I believe, is based off of R60 HFA 02 however R61 doesn't have any HFAs. If they've released HFAs for post R60 HFA 02, why haven't they released them for R61?

I have the same questions for Secure Client. The R60 was replaced with R60 HFA 01, however the new Integrity SecureClient which appears to be with R60--not R60_01. I glanced at the new Window's Mobile 5 readme which mentioned a requirement of R60 HFA 04 [minimum]...however the R62 Release Notes doesn't mention the Mobile client & it appears to not support it. Why release a new SPLAT that doesn't support what previous SPLAT versions support?

[BarryStiefel]

Originally Posted by melipla

I'm not following Check Point's reasoning behind branching HFA's like this. You can be on R60 HFA 02 HF-02 or R60 HFA 04. Why not call the new hotfix HFA 05? Are there so many conflicts that this can't be merged back into the main HFA tree?

Then there's R61, which I believe, is based off of R60 HFA 02 however R61 doesn't have any HFAs. If they've released HFAs for post R60 HFA 02, why haven't they released them for R61?

I have the same questions for Secure Client. The R60 was replaced with R60 HFA 01, however the new Integrity SecureClient which appears to be with R60--not R60_01. I glanced at the new Window's Mobile 5 readme which mentioned a requirement of R60 HFA 04 [minimum]...however the R62 Release Notes doesn't mention the Mobile client & it appears to not support it. Why release a new SPLAT that doesn't support what previous SPLAT versions support?

I just recently created this new forum to discuss precisely these types of issues.

[melipla]

Originally Posted by BarryStiefel

I just recently created this new forum to discuss precisely these types of issues.

Yeah I saw after I posted. I figured you'd move it & you did--thanks! :)

[melipla]

So other people answered my quesiton in other posts, just thought I'd post it here too:

Originally Posted by chillyjim

R60 HFA04
Add VoIP HF 2 if using VoIP

R61 HFA01 (Includes all fixes in R60_HFA04)

R62 (Includes all fixes in R60_HFA04)


VoIP Hotfix is not available for R61/62.

Secure Client is complicated a little more, see this note from the Vista thread:

Originally Posted by chillyjim

November 20th: EA [Secure Domain Logon and SSO will not be there]
First week of Feb 2007: GA [SDL and SSO will be in GA]

------------------------------------------------------------------
CheckPoint Customers interested in SC VISTA Public EA are kindly
requested to send their User Center email login adress to
ea@checkpoint.com and specify

Number of VPN-1 clients that will participate in EA

VPN-1 GW version that they paln to authenticate with.
------------------------------------------------------------------

VPN-1 Power = VPN-1 + SecureXL.

With R62 shipping two days ago (no I haven't received my copy yet). I'm told R63 beta starts soon, which is very exciting.