Checkpoint VPN client for Linux - is there any?

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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to find a VPN client solution for Linux that is
> compatible with what I currently use on Windows (in a VM hosted on
> Linux): Checkpoint's Endpoint Connect NGX R73.
>
> It does not look like Checkpoint offer a Linux VPN client (of any
> kind? the VPN Client Download page has a Linux tab but there is
> nothing there). Is this correct?
>
> I do not know enough to decide for myself (after googling around)
> whether
>
> 1. the whole thing is hopeless and there is nothing compatible;
> 2. there may be 3rd party/FOSS clients that are compatible with some
>   Chekpoint solutions and not others and more information is needed
>   to pick one or more to try;
> 3. one can just grab "this thingy here" and see if it works.
>
>
Just try to use raccoon or vpnc, I remember having either work better than
the original CP client (which was only available for RH7, so no wonder it's
ancient and horrible)


> I don't own the server side but I can ask questions - the trick is to
> know what to ask.
>
> Any advice? Thanks!
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
>
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