I recently had an annoying issue with my Check Point Smart Dashboard. Each time I connected to the Management with SmartConsole and editing the Security Management server object it causes an application crash. The crash would start with a UAC popup from the Windows registry: Followed by the Check Point SmartSashboard application crash itself with the following […]
Tag: R77.30
I’ve recently found myself capturing network traffic to troubleshoot reported issues. To successfully capture packets the use of tcpdump is required. And while you may be familiar with using this tool, the use is slightly different on Checkpoint devices. The devices in this reference is Checkpoint R77.30 and R80 devices. To capture the correct network […]
The following tech short will provide a list of commands used to enable debugging in Checkpoint’s R77.30 Firewall. To start you must SSH into firewall host (or active member). To turn on VPN debug from the expert mode: # vpn debug trunc At this point you want to test your VPN connection and verify that […]
Ran into a slight snag when attempting to restore a production backup into a VM(*VMware*) image of Checkpoint R77.30. I was using the Gaia WebUI to restore image returns a message: “The following hotfixes seem to be missing”. The message points me to a log file located under /tmp/ which indicates missing updates to the firewall […]