Re: Creating a VPN to Checkpoint

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From: Wolfgang Kueter
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:59

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Andrew Dickinson <d_a_dickinson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The company I work for has some remote satellite offices that, as time
> goes on, need increasing connectivity to our central/corporate office.
> Currently we are using a Checkpoint VPN-1 and Firewall-1 4.1. Clients
> are all using Windows 9x or NT/Win2K and connecting with Securemote.
> In some of our remote offices we are now placing broadband
> connections, like ADSL, simply because of cost effectivess of these
> links. What I would like to be able to do though is have a
> appliance/router (like a Cisco 806 or possibly one of the Linksys
> units) that is capable of creating a IPSEC VPN tunnel from that remote
> office back to our Checkpoint Firewall at our central office.

Any Linux Box running FreeSwan should do.

http://www.freeswan.org/
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.95/doc/interop.html
http://support.checkpoint.com/kb/docs/public/firewall1/4_1/pdf/fw-linuxvpn.pdf

Wolfgang
-- 
A foreign body and a foreign mind,
never welcome in the land of the blind.
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Subject: Re: Creating a VPN to Checkpoint
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