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 released on 31 March 2016.
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 an answer from R&D and apparently they could not reproduce the whole thing. They were able to crash routed but the failover could not be reproduced. After sending some more debug information and further investigation by R&D I was asked to enter two commands in CLISH.
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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.
Jumbo Hotfix Take 213 released with security hotfix
Today Jumbo Hotfix Take 213 for R77.30 has been released. This take integrates the recently released seperate security hotfix for DLP and Threat Extraction blades. This seperate security hotfix can only be installed on top of Jumbo Hotfix Take 205.
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Crashing routed on 1100 Appliances
Probably a few weeks ago I was asked to take a look at a Check Point 1100 cluster with Gaia Embedded R77.20.31 on it which had one member with a Down status. This is not a production cluster so when a reboot solved the problem we did not spend more time to investigate this issue deeper. Until then this only happened once.
But yesterday it happened again…
CPUSE timeout during ‘Saving File Permissions’
Recently I had to install a Jumbo Hotfix on a R77.30 VSX cluster for a customer. I made sure CPUSE was updated to the latest version.
When the Jumbo Hotfix installation was in progress I noticed that the status ‘Saving File Permissions’ did not finish. It looked like if this process was hanging. We waited a long time, but in the end the installation of the Jumbo Hotfix was simply cancelled without any warning or message being displayed.
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Understanding Check Point Management Station
Another Check Point Youtube Channel is Check Point Training Bytes. In these two videos they discuss the management database and tools to modify the Check Point Management database. In just 1 hour you’ll know a lot more about Management server.
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Understanding Check Point CoreXL
Another Check Point Youtube Channel is Check Point Training Bytes. In these two videos they explain CoreXL. In just 1 hour you’ll know a lot more about CoreXL.
Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 5
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the fifth video of that series where they explain SecureXL. SecureXL is a software acceleration product installed on Security Gateways.
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Security Gateway Performance Optimization – Part 4
Our friends back at Check Point have multiple Youtube Channels. This video is from the Check Point Support Channel. A few weeks ago they started a new series explaining performance optimization on Security Gateways. This is the fourth video of that series where they explain SecureXL. SecureXL is a software acceleration product installed on Security Gateways.
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