[Sussex] VPN and Checkpoint-NG

[Jon Fautley]

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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've started work at my new employer and for some of the out-of-hours
> support, I need access to their AS/400 via a VPN.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of connecting a Linux Client to a
> Checkpoint VPN?  If so, how did you do it? So many sites refer to a now
> defunct rpm-based client release by checkpoint for 2.4 kernels which is
> no longer available, nor is the documentation.
> 
> I'm running a 2.6 kernel on Gentoo at the moment, so any hints/tips
> wouild be most useful!

Hey Matt :)

What VPN protocols does the CheckPoint box use? While most of these
proprietary systems have their own variation of something standard, they
can often be convinced to use a different protocol - i.e. Cisco hardware
will do 'Cisco IPSec' (which is just a little different from normal
IPSec), and also PPTP (eww). Maybe you can get PPTP working? That's a
breeze to setup in Linux...

/j
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