Re: [FW-1] Need for a sk content

2013-10-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If you don't have access to the SK, you won't be able to follow it. SPLAT and GAiA up to R75.40 or so didn't include the right version of the igb driver, so you need to download it. Newer versions (R76 / R77) have the updated driver built-in. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:59 AM, a bv

Re: [FW-1] Wifi-FCCA vs. Wifi-World

2013-06-27 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Different wireless frequencies. FCCA is US-standards, while the world is nearly the rest of the world. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, fsackew...@hasco.com wrote: Hello @all, I just got two SG-80A, or now called CP SG1100. One is a CPAP-SG1140-NGTP-W-ADSL-A-FCCA, the other is called

Re: [FW-1] Upgrade problem

2013-05-28 Thread Independent IT Consultant
@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM] On Behalf Of Independent IT Consultant Sent: lunedì 27 maggio 2013 20:47 To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: Re: [FW-1] Upgrade problem Because you probably used the R75.45 version of the utilities. Mount the R76 DVD and use the utilities off that. Always use

Re: [FW-1] error at /var/log/messages

2013-04-15 Thread Independent IT Consultant
This is related to an IPS table being filled. The resolution is well-documented; see sk52101 for details. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: *Hi, * *I saw new entries at R70 SPLAT /var/log/mesaages like below but knowledgebase didnt help to found out yet to

Re: [FW-1] CP UTM-1 R70.5 policy question

2013-01-29 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Indirectly, you can accomplish this. Create a group with the relevant wireless nets, then define a single rule as follows: Source: {wireless nets} Destination: NOT {Internal nets} Service: HTTP, HTTPS Action: Allow Bear in mind that you're talking about fundamental differences in architecture

Re: [FW-1] Policy installation really slow on R70

2013-01-22 Thread Independent IT Consultant
There's insufficient information provided here to properly diagnose. If the issue is in the policy compilation / verification stage, more often than not, this is due to insufficient memory and/or excessive CPU load on the SmartCenter. If the delay occurs during the installation stage, the issue

Re: [FW-1] Android VPN Support with Office Mode

2012-08-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
The last I heard, there is an Android client currently under development. I think it's in the final beta phase (based on my last conversation). The client, from what I've been told, will work with Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly bean -- nothing earlier. Contact your local checkpoint rep for more

Re: [FW-1] Preventing facebook, youtube etc access

2012-08-06 Thread Independent IT Consultant
APP Control / URL Filtering is designed for this. IPS isn't. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How can we block facebook youtube twitter etc access from our SPLAT with IPS to some users which some also have direct http https access generally? Is there a

Re: [FW-1] R71 support in VM guest on ESXi

2012-07-13 Thread Independent IT Consultant
http://www.checkpoint.com/services/techsupport/hcl/virtual/index.html To clarify further, management (SmartCenter, Eventia) are fully supported on ESXi, as is legacy Connectra. For GATEWAY functionality, a VE license is required. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com

Re: [FW-1] Site to Site VPN errors

2012-06-04 Thread Independent IT Consultant
timers. Please can you explain more ? You mean by timesync all the gateways have the same time (or how many differences accepted)? The gateways others then mine is remote firms. What are the tunnel timers and how to check? Regards 2012/6/4 Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com

Re: [FW-1] Connections dropping when pushing policy

2012-02-24 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Prior to R70, CoreXL wasn't part of maintrain code, and was only introduced as a special release after R65. This is the component that makes use of multiple CPUs. On Nokia, you also needed IPSO version 607 or later to use this feature. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Ray sixsigm...@hotmail.com

Re: [FW-1] choosing a VRID

2012-02-08 Thread Independent IT Consultant
VRRP VRID must be unique per cluster per network. In other words, you can't have 2 disparate clusters on the same network using the same VRID. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Peter Addy wavema...@yahoo.com wrote: Just a quick question In simplified mode, does it really matter which VRID

Re: [FW-1] choosing a VRID

2012-02-08 Thread Independent IT Consultant
VRIDs. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com wrote: VRRP VRID must be unique per cluster per network. In other words, you can't have 2 disparate clusters on the same network using the same VRID. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Peter Addy wavema

Re: [FW-1] Root partition full, unable to update IPS

2012-02-08 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can use du -h / to find which directories are eating up the space. In all likelihood, it's one of 2 possible places: /home/admin or $CPDIR/tmp. If the former, remove anything unnecessary. If it's the latter, remove anything called file{something} -- rm file*. These are temp files used for

Re: [FW-1] Changing an objects IP

2012-01-12 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Policy installation is required. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:09 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Think of an object defined with an IP address and has been used in an access rule. If i edit the objects properties and change itsIP address, when the new IP will have the rights of the

Re: [FW-1] FW-1: Log buffer for tsid=0 vsid=0 is full

2012-01-12 Thread Independent IT Consultant
modzap doesn't work on SPLAT. Is this a VSX system? TSID refers to the FWD daemon. Determine why your log buffer is filling before changing anything. Possible reasons may include high CPU, congestion on the wire, excessive errors on the wire, and so on. Could also be load on the management

Re: [FW-1] No valid license found on server (x,y,z,f)

2011-12-30 Thread Independent IT Consultant
It sounds like you've got either a bad license or an issue with the configuration. Start with an evaluation license. Does that work? If so, move on to examining the real license. Is it central or local? You say the license is associated with the external IP. Be sure that IP is actually there

Re: [FW-1] Client authenticaion automatic popup, R75.20

2011-12-30 Thread Independent IT Consultant
The multiportal gateway is still there -- the WebUI also uses it. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Liu, Huiqi huiqi@cggveritas.comwrote: Hi Ted, Just want to clarify: IA isn't even enabled on the gateway, does it still try to use the webportal? Thanks, Huiqi Liu -Original

Re: [FW-1] webui for vsxR67

2011-12-29 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can't find it because VSX on SPLAT has no WebUI. No need for it. On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:30 AM, tasneemjan tasneem...@netscape.net wrote: hi I am running vsx with following ver: SecurePlatform Pro VSX NGX R67 Build 158 I can't connect via web interface. I do have console and ssh

Re: [FW-1] Interface connectivity problem on new R75.20

2011-12-19 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Are other NICs defined but disconnected? If you're getting dropped from Dashboard only, that would suggest that FWM is dying. Are you simultaneously losing your SSH session? Have you looked to see if there's any information in /var/log/messages? If you look at your NIC counters, do you see the

Re: [FW-1] A question about dynamic objects

2011-12-19 Thread Independent IT Consultant
to do URL filtering ... I am trying to allow to four servers to access only to smtp.gmail.com to send some emails a day ... Nothing more. And yes, this rules is at the end of the ruleset. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com wrote: What

Re: [FW-1] A question about dynamic objects

2011-12-13 Thread Independent IT Consultant
What exactly are you trying to do? Domain objects work (even with cnames), but are *VERY* resource intensive. There is *NO* caching done, so *EVERY* new session will require a new lookup. For services like GMAIL, this may become problematic. This is why CP strongly advocates that any rules

Re: [FW-1] connectivity issues (arp?)

2011-12-07 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If you suspect an ARP issue, run with it... When the issue presents itself, look at the ARP table on the firewall. If the affected hosts are on a network local to the firewall, you should see them listed in the ARP table. If you see something listed, compare the MAC address to what it should

Re: [FW-1] Dbedit tool

2011-12-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
DBEdit is -- in NO way -- a troubleshooting tool. It's a brute force (read: blunt instrument) tool for directly manipulating the database. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:40 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How and how often do you use DBedit tool? Does it help you do any troubleshoot?

Re: [FW-1] upgrade Power-1 from 71.3 to 75.20

2011-12-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can use the upgrade package or reimage the appliance. Should you choose to reimage, you need either a USB DVD drive or something like a zalman drive (or the tool noted in sk65205, though I haven't had luck with it yet). On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Kaas, David D david_d_k...@rl.gov wrote:

Re: [FW-1] UTM-1 upgrade advice needed

2011-12-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Have you determined the source of the CPU spike? Also, have you determined what's eating up the disk space? If you're doing nightly backups, those backups may be what's eating up your disk space. The log rotate and cleanup controls only $FWDIR/log and even then only the actual log files - not

Re: [FW-1] using fw putkey -n

2011-12-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
There should be no need for putkeys. Haven't needed them in many, many years. If moving to P1, just follow the instructions in the admin guides to do the cma_migrate. On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:14 PM, turenne azevedo turenn...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi...Try this... fw putkey IP gateway IP

Re: [FW-1] Android VPN Connection to R71.10 Gateway

2011-12-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I have L2TP running just fine in many places - iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.. Follow the rules, be sure you have a supported version of gateway, and it works like a champ. See https://forums.checkpoint.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=11188tstart=-1or

Re: [FW-1] Memory Recommendation for R75

2011-11-03 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If policy compilation is slow (the bar seems to hang at Verifying policy) then the issue is a problem on the SMC -- likely not enough memory or too many policies. Be sure that the only policies you have are ones that are active on gateways, and that you don't have a bunch of unused policies.

Re: [FW-1] Question about restoring smartcenter

2011-09-30 Thread Independent IT Consultant
It is not possible to restore a smartcenter from the files on a gateway (without MASSIVE manual intervention). The objects.C compiled for a gateway is incompatible with objects_5_0.C on the manager, and policy is darn well nearly impossible. Your best bet is to try to recover as much as possible

Re: [FW-1] force link speed/duplex on network interface belonging to a bridge

2011-09-21 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can change it from the command line and from /etc/modprobe.conf On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, pkc mls pkc_...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to force speed and duplex on an interface that belongs to a bridge ? webgui indicates that interface belonging to a bridge cannot be

Re: [FW-1] tcp packet out of state problem...

2011-09-20 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If your problem is asymmetric routing, then fix that problem; don't reduce the security posture. If I'm reading this right, your inside network points to the firewall as the default gateway, but you've since added a router on the inside network. The issue is that the firewall will see only

Re: [FW-1] Smartreporter consolidation creation error on Smart-1

2011-09-19 Thread Independent IT Consultant
By using an already antiquated (and known buggy) version, you're causing more work for yourself than is necessary. R75 will backwards manage R70 gateways. Reimage the appliance with 75.20 and move on. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:42 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , why didnt upgraded

Re: [FW-1] Smartreporter consolidation creation error on Smart-1

2011-09-16 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Why are you using such an old version of code? Since this is a new installation, reimage it with a newer version of the code - R75.20 would be my recommendation. I dealt with a load of issues with 70.30 that were cleared up with newer versions, and Eventia is far improved in the later release.

Re: [FW-1] R65 - Payload Malformed

2011-09-16 Thread Independent IT Consultant
First thing is to check your IPSO version - 6.2 prior to MR3 was very unstable. Next is that you may have had some modzaps on these old legacy boxes that weren't documented. Third would be to consider creating new cluster objects instead of recycling and reconfiguring the old ones. Esp with

Re: [FW-1] Smart-1 image files location

2011-09-14 Thread Independent IT Consultant
It's on a hidden partition of the hard drive -- same as the factory default images. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:48 AM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Im taking snapshots of smart-1 appliance from its webui , and there is a list of imgae names there. But i serached for this file on the

Re: [FW-1] Ipso boot manager for 6.2

2011-09-06 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can upgrade the bootmanager without clean install. Refer to the IPSO Admin Guide. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Peter Addy wavema...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Anyone know how to check if a version of bootmanager is compatible with ipso 6.2? Also if the boot manager has to be upgarded

Re: [FW-1] vpn and manager

2011-06-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
due to the gateways' inability to load the CRL. Pre-shared secret VPN's will continue to operate, presumably indefinitely. Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com wrote: It greatly depends on the *type* of VPN. If using certificates

Re: [FW-1] VE licenses are required to run secureplatform R75.x under ESXi??

2011-06-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Technically, it depends on what you're doing. If it's a general purpose gateway and you're not using any of checkpoint's virtual stuff, then at this point VE licensing isn't enforced, though it will yell about needing it at the console at boot. legally may be a different story. On Thu, May 26,

Re: [FW-1] vpn and manager

2011-05-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
It greatly depends on the *type* of VPN. If using certificates (such as with Edges or other gateways that are centrally managed), then the limiting factor is the CRL expiration on the ICA, which is, by default, 24 hours. In this case, tunnels that can't validate their certificates will fail

Re: [FW-1] Encrypt all communitcations between remote Security Gateway and local SmartCenter Server

2011-05-10 Thread Independent IT Consultant
. Are you concerned by some of the open ports? If so, tweak the implied rules. There are well-documented secureknowledge articles on locking down the footprint. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:53 AM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/08/2011 01:05 AM, Independent IT Consultant wrote: I don't

Re: [FW-1] Encrypt all communitcations between remote Security Gateway and local SmartCenter Server

2011-05-07 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I don't understand the need for the 3rd firewall. All communications between the gateway and management are already encrypted (that's the point of SIC --SECURE Internal Communications). On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I need to manage a remote

Re: [FW-1] Reinstalling an old R65

2011-03-18 Thread Independent IT Consultant
The install will likely ask if this is a UTM or POWER install. In your case, this is a UTM install. The license string you provided -- cpxp-ci-vpx-250-ngx -- is an Express gateway license (vpx) for 250 users with content inspection (ci). The cpmp-sct-3-ngx is the management license, supporting

Re: [FW-1] recommended operating system for smartcenter server

2011-03-07 Thread Independent IT Consultant
There is no right answer to this question, especially given the lack of information provided. How large is the implementation? What's the competency of the administration staff? What requirements do you have? Does the organization already have established standards? SPLAT is, arguably, the

Re: [FW-1] Hardware and Checkpoint

2011-01-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Short answer: you don't. Longer answer: If built right, there's little need for them. When defining your smartcenter guest, be sure to use the pro-1000 card not the vmnet. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu eu...@imacandi.netwrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 14:51, Reinhard

Re: [FW-1] Hardware and Checkpoint

2011-01-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
by political, not technical reasons), then install on RedHat, not SPLAT. On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Ralph J.Mayer rma...@vinotech.de wrote: Am 23.01.2011 22:30, schrieb Independent IT Consultant: Short answer: you don't. From performance point of view you really want the drivers. -- Viele

Re: [FW-1] Appliances vs Intel Server running Windows

2010-10-21 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Windows as an enforcement point platform greatly limits your capabilities -- most of the advanced features aren't compatible with windows. It also is something of an oxymoron -- an inherently insecure OS used as the platform for a security solution. At this time, 2008R2 is not supported -- only

Re: [FW-1] Patching Secureplatform

2010-10-21 Thread Independent IT Consultant
HFAs include SPLAT updates when applicable. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM, a bv vbavbal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to ask , when do you apply any fixes , HFAs to your Secureplatform? Do you find any vulnerability on the OS or application side of Secureplatform , if it remains

Re: [FW-1] Dell PowerEdge R310 HCL?

2010-10-20 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If it's important to use this model and not one that's certified, contact your Checkpoint account team and ask them to submit the model for certification; TAC can only support what's certified and has no influence over getting new products certified. So long as it's a fairly common platform,

Re: [FW-1] R70.3 SPLAT Identity logging not working

2010-10-14 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If you're using legacy NGX licensing, it won't work. You need to convert your licenses to the blade model. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Toomas Vahtra toomas.vah...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Does anyone have Identity logging working with R70.3 with SmartCenter running on SPLAT. In the

Re: [FW-1] Push policy fail after upgrade management portal to R71

2010-09-07 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Try a clean installation onto the gateway. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Konstantin Y Tselikhin co...@etk.ru wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:43:23 +0800, Konstantin Y Tselikhin co...@etk.ru wrote: After upgrade management portal from R70.30 to R71.10, when attempting to push policy

Re: [FW-1] Policy (QOS) install error after a R65 Windows /R70 migration

2010-04-02 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You need to update your topology to reflect the current interface names. They will have changed when migrating from Windows to SPLAT. Don't modify the /etc/modprobe.conf file -- that's associating the interfaces (eth0, eth1, etc) with the NIC driver (tg3, e1000, etc). Easiest thing would simply

Re: [FW-1] Upgrade to R70 / Change to Distributed Deployment?

2010-02-12 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Unless you have a significant performance issue with your current configuration, I'd say, NO. Part of the reason is that you'll need another container blade license if you split it up. Keeping things as-is (and so long as your licenses have support), you can use the tool from usercenter to

Re: [FW-1] Eventia Reporter can not see the new added firewall

2010-02-01 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Assuming this is a distributed installation (Eventia on a different box than the SMC), perform a database installation. From SMARTDashboard, Policy -- Install Database. This syncs the SMC database with the Eventia server. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Joe synec...@yahoo.ca wrote: Gents,

Re: [FW-1] Eventia Reporter can not see the new added firewall

2010-02-01 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Is your license for a sufficient # of nodes? Check Tools - License Registration On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Joe synec...@yahoo.ca wrote: Thanks, but the database installation didn't fix the problem. Jo - Original Message From: Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons

Re: [FW-1] Connectra's DynamicID 2-factor authentication solution

2010-01-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I've tried it and, overall, like the idea -- it's certainly less expensive than deploying SecurID and less cumbersome than digital certificates. Checkpoint is now offering the ability to test drive the product -- they'll grant a UserCenter account up to 50 SMS messages through their test SMS

Re: [FW-1] NGX R65 or NGX R70 (70.1 and 70.2)

2010-01-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
They're great for small offices on relatively slow pipes. I don't use them for anything more than about 15 people or a decent dsl line (up to around 10 mb), though. they're rated for 45 mb and up to unlimited users, but i've never gotten anywhere close to that before they start falling down. On

Re: [FW-1] NGX R65 or NGX R70 (70.1 and 70.2)

2010-01-19 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Redhat isn't a supported enforcement point platform in r70, and RHEL3 is rapidly approaching end of life. It won't support the latest platforms (such as Nehalem). Move on. If you really don't like splat, put an IP appliance out there. Run IPSO. If you don't like cpshell, don't use it...

Re: [FW-1] cp_merge policy to one global policy

2010-01-18 Thread Independent IT Consultant
. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator so what i'm i still doing wrong? Thanks C:\Documents and Settings\Administratorcp_merge delimited_policy -s 127.0.0.1 - l TesPolicy20100115 -f CentralOffice-20100810.pol -a import_append --- On Sat, 16/1/10, Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons

Re: [FW-1] R65 to R70 upgrade license issues

2010-01-18 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I've just gone through this with a number of my customers. It's actually quite simple... Checkpoint is allowing customers to trade in their existing licenses for *EQUIVALENT* software blade licenses at no cost, though a $0 purchase order has to be processed. If you're looking for something for

Re: [FW-1] cp_merge policy to one global policy

2010-01-16 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Yes. You need the . (without the quotes) after the -d in order to denote the current directory as containing the policy file. Also, your -n and -f are backwards. -n should be the name of the policy you're merging into, while-f includes the .pol file you're merging... If you're running this

Re: [FW-1] cp_merge policy to one global policy

2010-01-16 Thread Independent IT Consultant
file name] [-a export | import_new | import_override | import_append ] [-k security | nat | all ] Note: -l is a lowercase L as in LIMA, not I as in Indigo or the number 1 On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. You need the . (without

Re: [FW-1] cp_merge policy to one global policy

2010-01-15 Thread Independent IT Consultant
10.1.69.39 -n CentralOffice-20100810.pol -f TesPolicy20100115 -d the new policy i want to create is the test one as above all i get is Run cp_merge -help for detailed usage what i'm i missing, thanks --- On Wed, 13/1/10, Independent IT Consultant itsec.itcons...@gmail.com wrote: From

Re: [FW-1] cp_merge policy to one global policy

2010-01-13 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I've never used the import_append command (that would have been handy for a recent consolidation I did), but the syntax should be as follows: cp_merge import_append -s (smartcenter IP) -n (name of policy being added / appended) -f (policy file being added / appended) -d (. (without the quotes) or

Re: [FW-1] R70 on RHES\AS 4.x ?

2010-01-11 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Not supported, never was supported. AFAIK, RHEL 3 for R65, RHEL 5 for R70. checkpoint never seriously considered RHEL 4. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:12 AM, securitystig securitys...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Has anyone upgraded their R65 SmartCenter to R70 on RHES \ RHAS 4.8 or nearest build? The

Re: [FW-1] Must do fwm unload locahost to get to Smartdashboard

2009-12-30 Thread Independent IT Consultant
2 thoughts come to mind: 1) implied rules got corrupted -- try adding an explicit management rule 2) Try updating smartdefense -- SD could have been corrupted Either way, a quick debug should show you what's happening. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Warden, Kim kwar...@mpr.com wrote:

Re: [FW-1] Must do fwm unload locahost to get to Smartdashboard

2009-12-30 Thread Independent IT Consultant
...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf Of Independent IT Consultant Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:17 PM To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com Subject: Re: [FW-1] Must do fwm unload locahost to get to Smartdashboard 2 thoughts come to mind: 1) implied rules got corrupted

Re: [FW-1] policy rules based in domain name , instead an IP Address

2009-12-29 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can do this -- use domain as the object type (you may need to look in the other network object category to find it), with the name being the FQDN. NOTE: Be very, very careful about doing this, as it can cause a significant performance degredation, as the firewall is forced to do lookups for

Re: [FW-1] NGX R65 and Mitel Teleworker VoIP

2009-12-29 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You're problem is that it sounds as though there's NAT occurring on both sides of the VoIP connection -- this is a huge issue. Far-end NAT is a royal pain in the rear for VoIP, and can make it absolutely useless. My suggesttion is to look into some sort of session border controller -- either

Re: [FW-1] Jmicron problem

2009-12-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Does this happen to be a site that's natted behind the same firewall you're behind? If so, use a split DNS to hit it directly. If not, are you seeing the HTTP connection traversing the firewall? I've seen where customers have some odd routes on their network in the past. If both of those look

Re: [FW-1] missing compatibility package after update from R65 to R70.1

2009-12-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You did an in-place upgrade, right? Do an upgrade_export, reinstall the SMC (clean), then upgrade_import. If your SMC is on SecurePlatform, did you delete the recursive softlink as referenced in sk43427? On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Reinhard Stich r.st...@internet-security.at wrote: Do

Re: [FW-1] SPLAT 2.6 R70 on HP Proliant DL160 G6?

2009-12-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
It might work -- if you use the latest build. But not recommended. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, pkc_mls pkc_...@yahoo.fr wrote: M. N. a écrit : Hi, I know it is not on the HCL but has anyone been able to install SPLAT 2.6 R70 on a HP Proliant DL160 G6 server? Hi, installing a

Re: [FW-1] http https port address translation for a web portal

2009-12-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Port translation is not the answer -- HTTP over port 443 is not the same as HTTPS. Tell them to rewrite their application and remove hard links using full URLs with the http://; prefix. No external load balancer nor SSL termination device will address bad website programming. On Mon, Dec 14,

Re: [FW-1] Best practices for bandwith statistics and bandwith management

2009-12-23 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Enable SNMP reads, and you can use any off-the-shelf SNMP monitoring software to grab much of this (I like the open-source stuff like ZenOSS, Cacti, NMIS, etc). NOTE: checkpoint has its own SNMP tree you can walk. Look up the MIBs on their support site. I would suggest you poll the interface

Re: [FW-1] Problems with ClusterXL and R70

2009-11-17 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Your issue sounds as though it may be solved by adjusting the freeze state mechanism. Read sk32488: State sync while pushing the policy can cause the cluster to failover. I used to see this issue a lot, but can't say I've seen it with R70 yet. 2009/11/17 Luiz H. Guimarães Filho

Re: [FW-1] smartdashboard r65 hfa01 and windows 2003 server spk2 hfa05

2009-11-10 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Check to see if fwm crashed -- look in the Windows Event log for messages regarding cpwatchdog and check task manager -- 12:1 you'll find it dead. I've seen plenty of issues in the past (especially HFA02 and HFA25) where FWM crashed for some unknown reason. If this is the case, Checkpoint will

Re: [FW-1] Urgent Arp for NAT addresses, firewall not arping for NAT adressess

2009-10-28 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Generally speaking, you need to define proxy ARP or local ARP for any NAT that is a manually-defined NAT; if you directly edited the entries in NAT tab, you're using manual NAT. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Peter Addy wavema...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Can anyone please help urgently!!

Re: [FW-1] Future relese of NGX R70.x for Rhel5 security gateway

2009-10-28 Thread Independent IT Consultant
This is 1 situation where hating on Checkpoint is not the answer -- you've made the bed, now you've got to sleep in it. The moral of the story here is to use hardware that's on the HCL -- at least reasonably close to hardware on the HCL (found here:

Re: [FW-1] Future relese of NGX R70.x for Rhel5 security gateway

2009-10-21 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Have you tried changing the SATA mode to legacy? On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu eu...@imacandi.netwrote: pkc_mls wrote: carlopmart a écrit : I need to install R70.1 and I have only two options (because SATA controller isn't supported by secureplatform. System is a Dell

Re: [FW-1] SecurID Authentication for Smart Dashboard users?

2009-10-21 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I've successfully implemented SecurID without major incident any number of times, most particularly in almost every Provider1 implementation I've ever done. Just follow the instructions in the documentation, and you'll be fine. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Hugo van der Kooij

Re: [FW-1] Future relese of NGX R70.x for Rhel5 security gateway

2009-10-20 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Can we presume you're trying to install R70 and not a prior version? If it's R65, my account team told me that checkpoint's releasing an updated version of the 2.6 kernel version of R65, providing better support for newer hardware as well as support HFAs -- HFA50 finally handles the old version.

Re: [FW-1] SmartCentre NGX R61 software suite for Windows

2009-10-20 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If you're doing an upgrade_import, then theoretically it *SHOULD* behave -- so long as the server can find itself. The ID in SIC will be wrong, but I've seen plenty of cases where it doesn't care -- especially if you use a hosts file and list both the new and the old name. The BIG issue is when

Re: [FW-1] differences between r65 smartdefense and r70 IPS-1

2009-10-20 Thread Independent IT Consultant
checkpoint's integrated IPS (used to be SmartDefense) and IPS-1 (formerly Sensivist from NFR) are not the same product. I've heard rumors that NCode would eventually be integrated into the firewall-based IPS, but I don't have a lot of faith. cp's marketting crew claim that the new IPS engine is

Re: [FW-1] R70 support on Solaris

2009-10-15 Thread Independent IT Consultant
R70 *Management* is supported on SPARC. R70 enforcement is no longer supported on SPARC. That said, avoid the T processors, as I've heard of *significant *performance issues associated with them. R70 *Enforcement *(using SPLAT) is supported on select Sun-Intel platforms (consult the HCL for

Re: [FW-1] New Windows SmartCentre to run NGX R65

2009-10-15 Thread Independent IT Consultant
The hotfix should have been distributed as a zip / tarball -- bear in mind that the hotfix will have been compiled separately for each OS, so your IPSO version will not work on Windows.. Extract it on the new smart center and run the setup associated with the hotfix -- in the UNIX world, there's

Re: [FW-1] IPSO 4.2 build 96

2009-10-15 Thread Independent IT Consultant
DISCLAIMER: I've had a slew of problems with Build 96. On a dozen gateways, I ended up reverting to an earlier build after pulling my hair out with quirks on b96. Check Point recently (FINALLY) released 4.2 MR7 (build 105, I think) which resolved many of the issues I had. As others have

Re: [FW-1] When and how does the Site to Site VPN tunnel begins?

2009-09-14 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Unless the tunnel is configured for wire mode or has some sort of persistence, it won't be formed until traffic attempts to traverse it. Try pinging a host at the far end of the tunnel. You should then see a few messages in tracker regarding the tunnel being established (so long as ping is

Re: [FW-1] NG to NGX upgrade

2009-08-19 Thread Independent IT Consultant
You can comfortably upgrade from at least NGAI to R65 directly. I recommend that you not perform an in-place upgrade; instead, plan to to an upgrade_export / upgrade_import onto new hardware (or virtual machine). This will save you a load of trouble down the road. You will need to regenerate

Re: [FW-1] HowTo coneccting Edge IP60 to NGX R65

2009-08-14 Thread Independent IT Consultant
An IP60 is an Edge appliance. You do not need to define it as an externally-managed device. In Dashboard, create a new VPN-1 UTM Edge Gateway then select IP60 as type.Note, however, that you'll need to ensure that the Sofaware Management Service is running -- from the command line of your

Re: [FW-1] Migration from NGX65 to R70

2009-07-27 Thread Independent IT Consultant
I can personally confirm that legacy (that is, anything pre-Blade) does, in fact, work with R70. I've upgraded customers with both Express and pro licenses -- without any licensing issues whatsoever (database conversion issues is a different story). The caveat emptor to all of this is the

Re: [FW-1] Users of UTM-1 model 270 running R65 with messaging security

2009-07-22 Thread Independent IT Consultant
This is fairly common if running gateway anti-virus and a large amount of the traffic is being inspected by the AV engine. Try turning off gateway AV, and I suspect you'll see utilization drop from 95% to ~30%. If that's the case, consider tuning your AV settings. HTH. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at

Re: [FW-1] Checkpoint and Reverse Proxies

2009-07-16 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Damon: I don't mean to start a flamewar here, but Connectra *IS* the Check Point answer to secure reverse proxy, and, yes, it *DOES* do what ISA does (and then some). AFAIK, it won't reverse proxy without prior authentication -- true, but, then again, if you want secure reverse proxy, why not

Re: [FW-1] Problem logging with Dashboard using read only admin

2009-06-26 Thread Independent IT Consultant
be sure the machines these 2 additional admins are attempting to access SDB from are defined as GUI clients. Alternatively, consider implementing Smart Portal(so long as you're licensed for it). SmartPortal provides web-based read access into the Smart Center. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM,

Re: [FW-1] Issues with Conficker/DownadUp Virus

2009-04-24 Thread Independent IT Consultant
If you have a Smart Defense subscription, do an update, then activate the Conficker protection. If you're not retaining your logs (which you should be!!!), set the action to mail or user defined and have it mail you each time it finds a hit (though that may be tantamount to SPAM early on).

Re: [FW-1] FW: [FW-1] DNS Amplification Attack

2009-04-17 Thread Independent IT Consultant
Microsoft DNS doesn't support this capability. The ills of Microsoft DNS aside, there's only one salient point that must be considered: * Do you require exposure of your internal DNS environment to the outside world? If your internal DNS server is *NOT* publicly authoritative for one or