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Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

Darren_Fine — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:15:24 GMT

Hi,

I have a customer who wants to run their gateway in Hyper-V as VE. They are migrating from physical 4600's. It looks like Gaia based on the old Redhat Kernel cannot communicate sub interfaces with Hyper-V correctly. (this is an issue since Hyper-V only allows upto 8 interfaces to be attached to the firewall VM - and these guys have 13 network segments directly connected to the firewall).

I also see that sk106855 mentions this

Interface Type = Synthetic network interface

VLAN trunking is not supported

Any idea if this will be addressed ?

Is this perhaps available in R80.30 for the Security Gateway?

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

PhoneBoy — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:30:38 GMT

There is a version of R80.20 with the new kernel that I believe has updated drivers as a result.

See: Check Point R80.20 with Gaia 3.10 for AWS, Azure and Open Server Security Gateways

That said, Hyper-V is not listed as a supported platform.

Still might be worth testing in the lab in any case.

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

Darren_Fine — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:32:35 GMT

Hi Dameon,

(Firstly - thanks for the response.)

Tried the latest T8 image fromt he link you posted - it wont even boot into Hyper-V (nor Esxi 6.7 incidentally) states no drivers for HDD.

I also tried the installing R80.30 T148 EA but no joy on the sub interfaces working.

Strange cause Centos 7 Live CD just works (kernel 3.10.0-229) 🙂

Regards

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

PhoneBoy — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:32:41 GMT

Ok, maybe we haven't updated the drivers just yet

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

Abhishek_Singh1 — Sat, 18 May 2019 06:35:34 GMT

Is this resolved ?? Which version of Checkpoint Gaia OS supports vlan-trunking in Hyper-V ??

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

PhoneBoy — Sat, 18 May 2019 16:28:08 GMT

I recommend checking the R80.30 3.10 EA.
Not sure it's supported in Hyper-V but I would expect it to have newer NIC drivers.
If you absolutely require this, I highly recommend engaging with your local Check Point office on this.

Re: Gaia Sub interfaces on Hyper-V ?

Chris_Atkinson — Sun, 19 May 2019 11:47:30 GMT

For reference Microsoft talk about trunking support for Hyper-V and different Linux versions here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/Supported-CentOS-and-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-virtual-machines-on-Hyper-V#BKMK_5x