topic Re: Connecting to Checkpoint VPN from Ubuntu in SASE and Remote Access

Connecting to Checkpoint VPN from Ubuntu

Luca_Boulard — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:53:59 GMT

Hi,

one of our clients provided me a VPN access to their internal network. They say this is a Windows only solution, but I'd strongly need to connect from an Ubuntu-desktop 16.04 machine. Following, all the info I've about this VPN:

- on Windows I had to install the Check Point Mobile Client (E83.10)

- when configuring the VPN access in the client I only provide the server IP address and I choose Username & Password authentication method

- I connect providing username and password I was given

Does anybody know if it is possible to connect to such a network from ubuntu and how to do this? Or, if it is impossible to tell from the info I have, which additional info should I get from the IT department?

Thank you in advance,

Luca Boulard

Re: Connecting to Checkpoint VPN from Ubuntu

MartinTzvetanov — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:27:45 GMT

Take a look at this article https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Remote-Access-VPN/C2S-strongSwan-Roadwarrior-and-R80-30-working/td-p/67619

Re: Connecting to Checkpoint VPN from Ubuntu

PhoneBoy — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:35:46 GMT

The only official client supported on Linux is SNX.
Usually that requires connecting through Mobile Access to activate, though I suppose you can try: https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk90240

We can also support StrongSWAN through a custom R80.30 release.
Formal support is planned in R81.
The community has offered a couple solutions for other L2TP clients.

All of this assumes these clients have been explicitly enabled server-side.
They may not be.