Checkpoint VPN client for Linux - is there any?

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

Snx is for their ssl snx product. It will not work where officeconnect
should be deployed.

Ez
On Oct 27, 2011 7:13 PM, "Noam Meltzer" <tsnoam at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I remember correctly CP has some kind of plugin/extension/some other
> kind of lie called "snx".
> Or at least "snx" was the utility for linux which was the VPN client.
> You need some kind of license per user for that in the firewall.
>
> It worked for me several years ago with Ubuntu 08-04 (after a little
> hacking, of adding some missing '.so')
>
> 2011/10/27 dyasny <dyasny at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>> 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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