Re: [FW-1] Secondary firewall shows unknown status in SmartViewStatus

2006-01-15 Thread Lindsay Hill
If you can't ping the cluster member (assuming your rules allow it), then you're not going to be able to re-establish SIC. You don't have to detach the cluster member to do that. Just go onto the module, run cpconfig and choose reset SIC from there. Then within SmartDashboard, there is an

Re: [FW-1] Quick how to on Checkpoint remote access

2006-01-12 Thread Lindsay Hill
Get yourself a usercenter account. Now. Go to usercenter.checkpoint.com and register. You can then search for all sorts of stuff. This one: http:// secureknowledge.checkpoint.com/SecureKnowledge/ viewSolutionDocument.do?id=sk16564 will probably help. It goes through the steps for setting

Re: [FW-1] Upgrading Firewall Module

2006-01-09 Thread Lindsay Hill
Just update the firewall object, reset SIC, and you're good to go. Once you've got SIC working, you can push out licenses and policy. No need to export anything from the module. Only other things to consider are interfaces and routes, plus any SecurID or client auth stuff you might have on

Re: [FW-1] Problem with packages

2006-01-09 Thread Lindsay Hill
If you've downloaded an HFA, you'll need to unpack the *HFA*.tgz file, and then separately import the cpshared* and fw1* packages contained within. You can't just import the HFA as one chunk, it needs to be separate. I understand what cisco4ng means about issues with SmartUpdate. I used

Re: [FW-1] VPN Users unable to see non-Windows systems

2006-01-03 Thread Lindsay Hill
What troubleshooting have you done so far? What are your logs telling you? tcpdump? Is traffic from the clients coming in via the gateway? Is it passing the gateway? Are responses coming back from the HP-UX boxes? Are the HP systems in the same subnet? Is that subnet in the encryption

Re: [FW-1] Firewall dropping packets

2005-12-23 Thread Lindsay Hill
Doesn't matter what your logs say they were generated by, Ray's solution is the correct one. It is SmartDefense. It may not say that, since that particular protection/setting has been around for a while, possibly (can't quite remember) from before SmartDefense was called that. On 23 Dec

Re: [FW-1] SecurePlatform on VMWare ESX: compile vmware-tools drivers

2005-12-15 Thread Lindsay Hill
I've heard several people now say things along the lines of this - i.e. installing any other package will void your support. However, I haven't been able to find any documentation from Check Point that confirms this. I have had conversations with Check Point engineers, who have told me

Re: [FW-1] VRRP and Spoofing problem

2005-12-14 Thread Lindsay Hill
Have you defined the VRRP multicast address as being behind one of the other interfaces? On 14 Dec 2005, at 22:52, Oliver wrote: Hello everybody. I have 2 Nokias with VRRP configuration, NG with AI R55. When i check the antispoofing feature on External interface (in Cluster Topology) the

Re: [FW-1] Microsoft traffic appears to be dropped (R60 HFA01 Nokia IPSO 3.9b41)

2005-12-14 Thread Lindsay Hill
Rather than use any, you are usually better off to define explicit services. Some dynamic services don't match for any. Besides the fact that it is inefficient and insecure. As for part 1 though, what kind of traffic are you trying to do from the terminal services manager to the remote

Re: [FW-1] static NAT objetcs audit

2005-12-12 Thread Lindsay Hill
Ummmhave you tried looking at the Address Translation tab? On 12 Dec 2005, at 20:48, Miguel Angel Gutierrez wrote: Hello all... I've lost track of all my static NAT objects (bad admin from the last guy). This FW has more than 200 objects defined but only 20 of them are supposed to have a

Re: [FW-1] Telnet session times out

2005-12-09 Thread Lindsay Hill
Think carefully about the implications of having a session that never times out. What would happen if the session was not properly closed down by the client/server? Your connection tables would eventually fill up with old connections. The right solution for this problem (better than

Re: [FW-1] Firewall-1 NG Health checking/monitoring

2005-12-07 Thread Lindsay Hill
If you've replaced the system with the same hardware, and it's now running slowly, I would check for duplex mismatches between your server and the switches it is connected to. Check your netstat -in output for errors. You can look at things like the numbers of connections with fw tab -t

Re: [FW-1] nokia VRRP between ipso 3.7.1 and 3.9 ckpt R55 AI

2005-12-05 Thread Lindsay Hill
I don't see why Nokia would be saying that they won't condone it. There haven't been any changes to the actual operation of the protocol between 3.7 and 3.9. Some changes to the way you configure it, yes, but not to the way it actually works. You will still have a master sending out

Re: [FW-1] SPLAT question multiple processors

2005-12-01 Thread Lindsay Hill
Try cat /proc/cpuinfo uname -a (look for smp in the kernel version) top You'll see 4 processors if you've got hyperthreading on (the default). All this assumes you're running SPLAT. Generally, it just detects both processors at install time, and installs the SMP kernel. In your grub config,

Re: [FW-1] SSH VPN over non-standard port

2005-11-29 Thread Lindsay Hill
Quick points: * Are you using NGX? That offers you the SmartDefense option of blocking ssh over non-standard ports. You can also block sshv1 from about R54 onwards. * What do your logs say? Make sure you also check your SmartDefense logs * Is DNS all OK? * What does tcpdump/fw monitor

Re: [FW-1] R55 cluster XL and HSRP

2005-11-28 Thread Lindsay Hill
. (but we were looking for something more redundant e.g. that could have supported a firewall node + a router failure at the same time... Ok very unlikely to happen :) Thanks, Alain -Original Message- From: Lindsay Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:00 PM To: Delava

Re: [FW-1] R55 cluster XL and HSRP

2005-11-28 Thread Lindsay Hill
the internet to router A even if router A cannot communicate with the firewall nodes anymore (switch 1 is down, remember). If you have any comments or ideas... You're welcome :) Kind regards, Alain -Original Message- From: Lindsay Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8

Re: [FW-1] Problem with connections_limit on R55 Gateway

2005-11-25 Thread Lindsay Hill
It's a limitation of express. If you want to support more connections, you need to purchase enterprise licenses. I believe someone on the list did the same a few months ago, and was able to change to enterprise with no problems, no reinstall required. - Lindsay On 25 Nov 2005, at 11:09,

Re: [FW-1] Certification Tests

2005-11-15 Thread Lindsay Hill
If your certification is for AI, then yes, it is still valid, and you can put it on your CV, no problems. I would say though that if you are regularly doing searches in SecureKnowledge, then having the certs makes a big difference - you get access to far more articles, which for me is the big

Re: [FW-1] How can I stop the broadcast log?

2005-11-11 Thread Lindsay Hill
Put in a rule to silently drop the traffic. It's pretty much a standard rule. Something like: Any - broadcast address - any - drop - None On 11 Nov 2005, at 19:02, Bernard Jen wrote: I am using NGX R60. I see lots of dropping traffic for the broadcast packet. How can I stop seeing

Re: [FW-1] Nokia upgrade IPSO and Checkpoint

2005-11-10 Thread Lindsay Hill
I would suggest reading the release notes for both the version of IPSO and the version of Check Point that you are planning on installing. Look for the Installation Instructions section. If you are only doing a minor upgrade, it is quite straightforward. Install the new IPSO image with

Re: [FW-1] NAT issues after upgrade (NG FP3 - NG AI R55)

2005-10-31 Thread Lindsay Hill
Random thoughts: 1/ Running fw monitor, what behaviour were you seeing with the auto NAT not working? Do those NATs require proxy ARP entries in place? When they were making external connections, was the traffic being passed, without the source being NATted? Or was traffic not being

Re: [FW-1] How can i make rules with the hostname and not with an IP

2005-10-07 Thread Lindsay Hill
You need to look into dynamic objects. Someone was asking about them the other day on this list. My two cents - don't use them, they're more trouble than they're worth. See if you can find another way of solving the problem. - Lindsay On 7 Oct 2005, at 00:29, Zubair Jalal wrote: Hi. I

Re: [FW-1] How I can edit secure remote topology ??

2005-10-07 Thread Lindsay Hill
know how I can solve this ? I tried to put some external hosts in VPN group used for Topology, but, don't work. Thanks again for your BIG help ! From: Lindsay Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM To: FW-1

Re: [FW-1]

2005-10-07 Thread Lindsay Hill
Every packet? Or just old sessions that the firewall doesn't know about, since its connection table was cleared by you rebooting it? Sounds like the firewall is acting ok. After rebooting it, do new sessions work ok? It's one of the problems with standalone firewalls, and why many people use

Re: [FW-1] Looking for walkthrough guides

2005-10-06 Thread Lindsay Hill
I would suggest reading the Nokia docs on VRRP: https://support.nokia.com/knowledge/resolutionView.jsp?ResolutionId=1214 Use simplified mode though, it makes your life much easier once you get beyond a few interfaces. Check Point has some documentation on VPNS - look here:

Re: [FW-1] Looking for walkthrough guides

2005-10-06 Thread Lindsay Hill
you verify the link or append the file? Thanks. -Mensaje original- De: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Lindsay Hill Enviado el: dijous, 6 / octubre / 2005 10:22 Para: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Asunto: Re: [FW-1

Re: [FW-1] How to reset/clear VPN

2005-10-06 Thread Lindsay Hill
vpn tu You'll get a menu with some options for resetting SAs for all, or specific, peers. There's probably a way of doing it in one line from the command line, but the menu makes life easier. If it's a regular occurrence, you might want to do some digging into why it's occurring - make

Re: [FW-1] How I can edit secure remote topology ??

2005-10-06 Thread Lindsay Hill
Create a group containing the topology you want, then on the topology tab of the firewall object, set topology to manual. and use that group. The default is to use all addresses behind the firewall based on the topology information, which may not be what you want. Install policy, then

Re: [FW-1] How I can edit secure remote topology ??

2005-10-06 Thread Lindsay Hill
this, but doesn't work. In this topology group, I must put the source IP address or destination ? I think this can be the trouble. Thanks a lot. From: Lindsay Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM

Re: [FW-1] Nokia + checkpoint Issue

2005-10-02 Thread Lindsay Hill
You could try logging onto the console of the firewalls, see if anything interesting is going on there. You can also run tcpdump, etc from there, see what's happening with your traffic. fw monitor can also be helpful, but it gets killed on policy install. If I was you, I'd also change your

Re: [FW-1] RES: [FW-1] ICMP Packets

2005-09-30 Thread Lindsay Hill
that block icmp traffic sometimes can not be very good because of udp traffic. is this true? I dont want people in internet pinging my web servers. thanks again to all. -Mensagem original- De: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nome de Lindsay Hill Enviada em

Re: [FW-1] ICMP Packets

2005-09-29 Thread Lindsay Hill
Normally you would have the global option turned off. You can then allow any specific ICMP that you do want (e.g. from your monitoring server) with the use of a normal rule. If you turn the option on in your global properties, it effectively just adds another rule. Go View - Implied Rules to see

Re: [FW-1] More SecureClient

2005-09-27 Thread Lindsay Hill
Is your encryption domain set correctly? You shouldn't be setting any routes. - Lindsay On 27 Sep 2005, at 08:51, Meyers, Duncan wrote: More on Secureclient... I have SecureClient talking nicely with the firewall - but I can't get traffic to go across the VPN unless I set hub mode on