Author: Piet

Early Availability program R80.20

Check Point is launching an Early Availability (EA) program for it’s upcoming release R80.20 which might be released this summer. There are currently two EA programs available. Production EAThe Production EA program is for Check...

One year later…again millions of zero-byte files?

Almost a year ago I ran into the CPUSE timeout issue when Saving File Permissions. Last week I ran into a similar problem when creating a snapshot of the same VSX gateway. In a...

R80.10: fw monitor – new inspection points (eE)

Earlier today a colleague found out that when he used fw monitor on R80.10 he saw two extra inspection points in the output. For years we’ve all seen iIoO but since R80.10 there is...

R80.10: Automatic Proxy ARP with Manual NAT rules

When releases like R80.10 hit the spotlights there will always be new features that don’t get immediate attention. Something that changes with R80.10 is the new ability to enable automatic creation of Proxy ARP for manual...

R80.10 released

The wait is finally over. R80.10 has been released today and the necessary files for a clean install or upgrade from R7x.x or R80 can be downloaded from Support Center.

Memory leak in CPUSE Build 1272

It seems that the Gaia Deployment Agent, also known as CPUSE, is affected by a memory leak. When monitoring devices we saw memory usage increasing rapidly to almost unhealthy proportions. Most of the time...

R80.10 is coming this month? [UPDATED]

According to rumors covered by this article the long awaited version R80.10 (supporting Security Gateways) might be released in two or three weeks. This means R80.10 will be released about a  year after R80 was...

Crashing routed on 1100 Appliances (continued) [UPDATED]

More than a month ago I published this article about a crashing routed on two 1100 appliances when just entering the command ‘show route’ in CLISH. It took some very long time to get...

Understanding ClusterXL

The Check Point Support Channel on YouTube offer a series of 3 videos regarding troubleshooting ClusterXL. A must see for anyone supporting Check Point clusters based on ClusterXL.