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I am having some trouble getting ping to work over a VPN connection to another party whoose firewall is beyond my control. My understanding of ping is that it is not treated as "stateful" by Checkpoint firewalls hence needs a rule for both "echo-request" traffic in one direction and another rule...

Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated. -------------------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSE NG AI --------------------------------------

Thanks for getting back to me Chris that is what I thought. If I issue the command fw lichosts would I be right in saying this shows me the protected hosts. If protected hosts exceeds 50 what sort of problems would you expect to see. -------------------------------------- Damien Allen...

What does a "Check Point Express - VPN-1 Express Gateway for 50 Users" license entitle me to. Does it mean that the firewall will protect 50 ip addresses behind it or does it relate to the total number of connections allowed through the firewall by the license. When I do the command "fw tab -t...

I also used the Sybex books for both Checkpoint exams and found them very good. I would recommend them... -------------------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSE NG AI --------------------------------------

Thanks David, I have since found the Knowledge Base resolution for this problem and all worked out ok. Cheers for your help. -------------------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSE NG AI --------------------------------------

Just to clarify the error is ".: Can't open /opt/CPshared/5.0/tmp/.CPprofile.sh". Cheers -------------------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSE NG AI --------------------------------------

I am trying to install the latest HFA on a Nokia but it is coming up wih the following error(see below). I have successfully installed it on 4 other Nokia's already. I think this may be due to a virtual link not being updated but am not sure as I do not have a lot of Nokia/Unix experience. Any...

I recently found a Nokia resolution for this issue at https://support.nokia.com/knowledge/resolutionView.jsp?ResolutionId=17871 . Thanks for the suggestions earlier. -------------------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSE NG AI --------------------------------------

Thanks for the suggestions guys, the powers that be have decided to wait until we roll out the upgrade to NG AI R55, so I too will have to wait to see if that improves matters... ----------------------------- Damien Allen CCNP,CCSA -----------------------------

When pushing a policy to my NG FP3 firewall from Smartdashboard it takes so long that I have to abort the installation. However if I putty to the firewall and do a "fw stat" the policy is always there.I have waited for up to 20 minutes but still no joy. The policy is getting pushed down to the...