Search:

We always recommend management HA, but as to if it is required in a given environment it depends on your level of risk tolerance.
As long as you keep good documentation and perform [i]migrate...

Auto-nat is good when a Check Point is doing the NAT when it isn't a Check Point, as in management on AWS, you need to do the following:

Manager's object Main IP Address set to the Public IP...

Cisco uses syslog and the normal logs do not contain as much data. There is log suppression configurable, but again straight syslog is not a good solution. SPLUNK and the like are.

If you really...

Sending raw FW logs to a syslog server is a good way to kill it. What you see in Tracker/SmartLog is consolidated log entries, what you get in syslog is each and every log fragment with nothing on...

I don't know of any current issues with DCE traffic but it has been a problem in the past. I would suggest getting to R77.30+JHF as the R77 kernel is noticeably better than the R75. Add to that R75.X...

If you know your Check Point SE tell them, it used to be noted on the HCL not to use the broadcom NICs, but this sounds like a different issue. If you don;t know them open an SR with all the info and...

Good to this point. If you have a separate management network (and you really do want one) or you can use different VIP addresses from the existing gateway, skip #3.



Yes but there is no need...

It depends on how much drift there is. If this is an Active/Standby cluster it won't be a problem, this will not cause a failover. Active/active if there is a lot of clock drift, 10s of seconds at...

This is the same in SPLAT. For a <i>normal</i> (VSX is different) you can have a mix of L2 & L3 interfaces, but be careful of the routing.

That said almost everyone I know who has deployed this...

Starting with your FW rules -- All HTTP traffic from "SRV" is accepted on rule 1. Rule 2 will never be matched.
On the APPL in rule 1 you accept all traffic from SRV to Villa, then on rule 2 you...

In SPLAT "webui enable 4434" to kick start the daemon and "fw unloadlocal" to take out any firewall rules that might be a problem.

It would imply you can get it to work but Check Point doesn't have the same support responsibility as if it was "supported" (on the HCL).

Not a supported card from what I can see. I've also seen a lot of comments that the performance is very poor. This is not just a Check Point issue. Google be2net and see...

Supported 10GB cards...

You configure your community as a star and:

Advanced Settings -> VPN Routing -> "To Center or through center to other satellites, to internet and other VPN targets"

This is the easiest way.

Yes the -l option allows you to say which policy package you want to use.

See also "save configuration" and "config_system" (lets you skip the FTW).

My favorite SSL site...

https://www.sslshopper.com/article-most-common-openssl-commands.html

IIRC the 61K was released in 2012. The code release runs slightly behind the main-train release.
You should not have any fear of the 61K. Any problem with the platform receives very high visibility....

There has been an IPS update to catch this.

In that case I would look at Tufin.

Don't feel bad, I didn't know about either and I've been using Check Point 20 years.

Yeah it looks that way. 10 years you get a lot more CPU than you did.

That will make a big difference with large policies.

CPAP-SG640-NGTP = Wired only
CPAP-SG640-NGTP-W-WORLD adds wireless AP to the device (International use)
CPAP-SG640-NGTP-W-FCCA Wireless for US only

If you are using just FW/NAT then the S-Box should be fine. If you add services then the new platforms will be a lot better.
It's as much a code thing as a hardware thing.

It depends on the size of the rule base. If it's large (>1000 objects + rules) that would sound about right.
If it's not I would open a ticket right away.

Yes see http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_2sb/feature/guide/gigeth.html for the Cisco side and from voyager it's in the menu.
See...

LACP bonded interfaces if your switch supports them for link-layer redundancy.

I do not understand

Captive Portal is the authentication of last resort effectively. So if you have ADQ and/or Agent your domain systems should authenticate without the portal and non-domain (guest) systems will get the...

FYI: SecureClient & Office Mode will resolve most of the above.

There is a "transparent" portal if the user is using a browser that supports AD-Krborose. Then only users that do not have a KRB ticket are asked to sign in. Interm option until the Aruba stuff is...

You should really be looking at Workflow and the Compliance blades for a complete Check Point solution. Tufin & Algosec does do more than Check Point but it really comes down to what you need to...

It should.

ADQ as it works today doesn't. PAN is agent based (not a client agent but server agent) so it functions a little different. I do know there if more flexibility coming due to changes in...

Not really unless you are OK with an untrusted certificate waring at the client end.



If you are using AD Log Query, until there is a log of the login we cannot detect it.
If you are using the...

https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk92965&js_peid=P-114a7bc3b09-10006&partition=General&product=Security#Documentation

Look...

Yes please post. This is the place for "unofficial" how-tos and if you needed to do it, someone else will too!
Thanks.

Please PM me your SR# and I will take a look.
Unusable Internet connectivity is not an expected behavior. This has to be an environment/configuration issue. I am on VPN almost full time with issue.

Re IPSec: you are correct that the differential makes a difference. If that differential soddenly changes it can cause the connection to drop. The actual time is an issue with the certificates used...

IIRC when we had the Daylight Savings Time change a few years back, one of the Check Point SE's tested SIC's tolerance and it was pretty long so even shifting a few hours shouldn't be an issue. THat...

The more people that ask their SE's for support of this or any platform the more likely it will be. That said, the vast majority of UCS I see are ESX boxes which is a very good option for management....

Thank you Eric, Kevin & the rest of the Netanium crew.

ADN is SplatPro and QOS (and I think IPS redundancy). If you have a separate SPLATPro or FG-1 license for this that didn't convert correctly, you just need to contact account services and they will...

Boy I thought "Antique" we were talking pre-3.0 :)

As stated above, if the traffic comes off the ADP card you will pay a significant penalty vs. a normal NIC. The most you will get is about 3Gbps if the traffic comes off the card. If it stays on the...

WRT number of interfaces. Yes the published numbers are across all the interfaces.

WRT ADP, w/o acceleration and if the traffic doesn't stay on the card, ADP can hurt your performance. Before...

https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk61286

No all the info is complied into the policy not distributed as files.

Not sure about the topology, I just know I needed that set in order to make it work at all.
You might want to take a look at an ike debug to see what the FG is sending.

Yes I've done it before, but haven't tried it in a while.
You do need to have the template and Excel Pro for it to work.

Fortigate requires you to set the interoperable device to use a wild card VPN domain.

This you should get, if you didn't please call your account team and/or account services



Again this only applied to Reporter where the first five edges counted as one. The SVM license may...

Sigh....If only the real world (tm) would allow such.

PS. Apparently one of the IOS/ASA interoperability problems is the one discussed in sk42315. An ASA will expire/re-negociate Phase I SA but...

Yes, changes made on the SmartCenter.

Nope. Wish there was, it bugs me too.

Confwiz (sk41719) will export your rulebase (and objects) to XML which can then be read by Excel. See sk42302 for the Excel template.

Userdirectory was always a licensed feature. If you had a SmartCenter Pro license it was included and still will be when you upgrade



With the exception of SmartReporter that has always been...

Two major things to check.

First make sure the community is set to negotiate on subnet not gateway, then take a look at sk19243 for how to force negotiation to a /24 instead of supper-netting.
...

Hrmm that's silly. Well maybe not from a marketing POV.

I would contact a reseller or call into Check Point and ask the inside sales folks for a copy.

If that doesn't work let me know and I'll...

Short answer don't use windows, use SPLAT.

Longer answer, a lot of stuff ends up in %SystemRoot%\fw1 but the big stuff (logs and the like) end up where you told it to install.

Hijacking the thread...



My that's one BIG gateway!!

Sounds like it would make a good SmartCenter/SmartEvent server as well.

Being out of the server market for a long time now, what is...

Go to Try Our Products | Check Point Software and you should be able to get a copy to try.
If that doesn't work, contact a reseller.

I have seen similar problems that were fixed by doing an IPS update (I gather it ends up replacing corrupted HTML files).

I have at least one customer running R71.<something> on ESXi 4.1 sithout any issues.
**NOTE: Not supported yet by Check Point (AFAIK) and really not supported by me**

The simplest thing to do would be to run the Software Blade upgrade tool and see what it generates. You do not have to "commit" the upgrade.

I don't think so but I'm double checking.

Now confirmed. SD is not needed with IAB.

My route...

If Check Point to Check Point (Including Edge) use one SA per gateway pair.
If between non-Check Point then start with one per sub-net pair.
If that doesn't work, try per host.
...

What ver of gateway & VPN client are you using?

Does the VPN work with any other systems?

I still have a customer on 3.0b! Yes he is paying SS.
We won't even discus the 4.1 and FP3 customers still out there.

If you are going to go with standard support the appliance support rate if 12% in the US.

As I said, YOU have to run the numbers and do what's right for YOU. Not everyone is the same.
I do a lot...

The major advantage to the appliances is the 17% support rate IMHO. There is no "technical" advantage, and you may well be able to "roll your own" for less. That said a lot of people like the...

Yes you would if it "on" at the same time as the non-DR.

The "Right" solution from a check point stand point, would be to use management HA.
The other option, not quite a backup/restore but a...

People with EA versions are under NDA not to discus the product until it has been released. It may be different in the public EA but I don't know.

If you are looking for a lab copy, please contact...

**NOTE** For the life of the license there is no support uplift even if there is a charge for IAB after 12/31/2011

Used it with a fortenet box. still trying to find the developer that added it, have to hug her/him :)

Yeah you would think so, but not so much.
R71+ (maybe R70) allows you to set an inter-operable device to use "wildcard domains" AKA a proxy-id of 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 like Juniper and other broken VPN...

R75 also includes an on-demand 45 trial license.
IAB is licensed free of charge (with no support uplift for the life of the license) until 12.31.2011 (at least) for products under support.

A HA licensed box must be in a cluster with at least one non-HA box.
Now is that how it's enforced? Not sure, if it's working for you now, you're probably OK until you get the RMA box in. To be...

As long as the version you are using has the correct hardware type (Which R62+ does for UTM-1) then use it. Otherwise use Open Server (Assuming SPLAT).

Does it really matter? Probably not for most...

Then I want to be your account team! (That's about an $8M usercenter at list price.)

Yes there is FDE available with R80, just not the R73 version.



There are plans to unify them from what I was told, but no time table.

Check Point R71 April 2010 R71 April 2014
Check Point R70 March 2009 R70 March 2013


It's all on Check Point Enterprise Support Timeline

Yes it should be this year (2011) not 2012. For that matter, last I knew it should be Q1 but I haven't seen a release update in a while.

As always, if you are in particular need talk to your SE...

Gaia was not suppose to be released as part of R75, it's a separate release.
AFAIK it has not been released yet, but it is close. Keep your eyes open.

Make sure both members can see the traffic (otherwise a cluster isn't getting you anything).
Latency on the sync link should be <100 ms. Bandwidth should be gig on sync if you can.

This is most likely not the problem but having just spent too much time trying to hunt down a bad connection, it turns out that the comcast routers can only drive about 50 feet of Cat5 cable before...

IIRC that was fixed in one of the HFA's (I think it was R70 that I ran into the problem).

By not upgrade, do you mean not installed or is R65 Eventia still running.

If not installed, then you you should be able to re-run the upgrade. If R65 is still running, call support.

Sounds like you are getting hung up on one of the client (browser) protections. Assuming you have tried to update your IPS, I would look for BHO's and add-ons on the browser side.

I'm sure there...

Don't think I understand the question. The gateway will stop passing traffic until it's finished rebooting and loading policy.



Lots of stuff can be happening.

Two usefull commands are "fw...

One note on this, we (Check Point) have seen performance problems with Broadcom NICs under heavy load. There are several posts on CPUG about this. They will work just fine for sync and management,...

Well then, 12GB's of RAM it is! Guess you buy a few of them.
They will sure be nice for Gaia 64 when it comes out.

This usually means it will be released real soon.
They tend to set up the links and such just before posting the new product.

I'm sure there will be a nice big splash page when it's official.

It should work (It does for most systems). As said above, more than 4 GB for a gateway isn't going to do much (PAE in the case of a gateway will hurt performance). A smartcenter, smartevent or...

A quick rescan and I stopped at R65 HFA70, so sorry.

I assume you have tried a different 1850 (can't tell from you posts)?

I don't have an 1850 to see myself (and my 38<something> won't turn on...

If you have an R70.x CD see if that works (I suspect not). Both use the same install kernel. I have had this problem in the past using a serial port.

Well if the CD works on other systems, and the system can boot off of other CD's, sounds like it's a keyboard problem. Try a different keyboard (PS/2 if you have one).

FWIW we use it internally. I've been using it for iPhone e-mail access and it works well. We have a few "sites" set up, but they don't display well on an iphone (nothing to do with the VPN).

This is one of those "it depends" things. If you are in a spot where you really need Active/Active then it can really improve performance. If you are in a condition where you are just hammering the...

I think so, I'll look around when I get home.

The problem isn't L2 it's L2 clusters. There are just some switches/software versions that won't work.

Yes I've done it. It is very dependent on your switches and switch configuration. Contact your SE, as this configuration (for now anyway) needs to be approved by the Solution Center.

That all...