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972605

472

321

R8x Ports Used for Communication by Various Check Point Modules (new version 2.1)

972605

472

321

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

2790

PBR with ISP redundancy support

2790

Solved

inside

Contributor

3654

VIP ping delay and active addresses of the MGMT interface

3654

Solved

inside

Contributor

1461

Advertising non existing networks (encryption domain) into BGP - Blackhole Route or NAT-Pools

1461

inside

Explorer

695

Objects.C has mssing objects but in dbedit has object.

695

inside

MVP

1056

This Month’s Spotlight - Features You Should Start Using Today 🚀

1056

Solved

inside

Contributor

4653

Access role object on threat prevention policy rule

4653

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

5818

VSX R80.40 - Remote access and RADIUS

5818

inside

MVP Silver

7319

syslog RFC 3164 (old) and RFC 5424 (new).

7319

inside

Collaborator

813

VSX - Blink Upgrades & Jumbo HFA Compatibility (sk164258)

813

Solved

inside

Collaborator

956

LAB MDS Upgrade Verification Fail "No Partial Domain Verification Issue" - Missing sk113134

956

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

2252

mgmt interface recommendations

2252

inside

MVP Gold

605

Fail when trying to create a new loopback interface in VSX

805

Solved

inside

Contributor

38962

How to measure bandwidth on CP Gateway?

38962

Solved

inside

Participant

3323

Cannot manage R82.10 (3920 appliance) with R82 Take 43 management

3323

Solved

inside

Participant

10188

Setting an DHCP Reservation in CheckPoint DHCP Server on 6400

10188

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

964

Dedicated log server upgrade verification issue

964

inside

MVP Gold

701

Troubleshooting Logs - A list of Resources - Training, SKs and Commands

701

inside

Participant

1657

Policy error while adding VSX gateway to SmartConsole

1657

inside

Participant

3528

r81.20 OPEN management server log issues

3528

inside

Explorer

5014

Gaia Portal Recognized a non-valid username

5014

Solved

inside

Collaborator

14332

Can Policy based VPNs and Route based VTI coexist on the same checkpoint firewall?

4028

Solved

inside

Collaborator

44002

Options for Migrate Server Export Without Any Firewall Log

550

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

811

Disable Anti Spoofing on EXTERNAL interface necessary?

489

inside

Explorer

637

Error about View Changes function

637

Solved

inside

Contributor

2427

1st timer - upgrade process - R81.10 to R82.10 cluster

2427

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

5962

ClusterXL issue with MDPS enabled

5962

Solved

inside

MVP Gold

2708

L2TP/IPsec Issue After Gateway Rename

459

inside

MVP Silver

895

Check Point R82 Identity Awareness Lab – Identity Collector Step-by-Step

895

Solved

inside

Contributor

4667

What is the differece between Dmesg and messages

603

Solved

inside

Participant

1532

Over-enthusiastic blocking - Leading www in custom ioc domain feed is treated as wildcard?

1304

Solved

inside

Explorer

525

Renew Gaia Portal Web-UI Certificate on Magement Server

525

inside

MVP

2973

This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Features You Should Start Using Today 🚀- December 2025

2973

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

4898

High-Availability Multi-Domain Server Pair - Patching Order?

836

Solved

inside

Advisor

583

RAS VPN 3950 82.10 Build 291 - Wrong value for: Authentication Method

583

inside

Explorer

8755

Identity Awareness - R81.20 For Lab

8755

inside

Explorer

4260

Maximum amount of CPU cores supported by open server management

4260

Solved

inside

Contributor

3452

Building NAT via API - Parameter error for position?

1020

inside

Advisor

3034

create email alert when failover occur

3034

inside

Explorer

1362

Query regarding Checkpoint firewall firmware upgradation

1362

Solved

inside

Advisor

1460

Quantum Force 3920 on smart-1 cloud

1460

Solved

inside

Participant

12501

Traffic not working when failover is initiated on Azure cluster

701

Solved

inside

Participant

960

ERROR: Geolocation DB incorrect for owned IP Space

960

Solved

inside

Advisor

3279

S2S VPN cannot be connected R82.10 Build 464 - Invalid Key Exchange payload

3279

Solved

inside

Contributor

1147

clusterxl 3970 and vm sms r82 take 60 want to upgrade but ???

1147

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1259

Correct Eval Licensing for HA MDS - CPUSE and migrate_server license violation issues.

1259

inside

MVP Silver

1967

S1C with separate on premises log server???

887

Solved

inside

Explorer

1606

Challenges with connection based logging

6056

Solved

inside

Participant

5258

Session logs not showing Xlate information

5258

inside

Explorer

929

MDS Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

833

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1949

R82.10 ISO Install fails on VMWare Vcenter 7

1752

inside

MVP Gold

2594

Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction testing resources

2594

inside

Collaborator

2795

Unable to clear status alert in SmartConsole that shows that VPN certificate has expired

2795

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

30078

R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Take 120 (CVE-2019-6109, CVE-2019-6110, CVE-2019-6111)

626

Solved

inside

Advisor

1786

CP 3950 - lost Gaia access after installaition of the migrated policy

1786

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1080

IP pool Source NAT issue R82.10 L2TP + IPsec

1113

inside

Explorer

389

ClusterXL R8.20 Take 118 - Best way to move interface from 1Gb copper to 10Gb fiber ?

389

inside

Explorer

1417

VSX: SCP backup being blocked by non-existing rule 705 ???

1417

inside

Explorer

433

Remote Access VPN - AES-GCM as encryption algorithm

433

inside

Advisor

444

Checking Site-to-Site VPN tunnel status per gateway from Smart-1 Cloud

444

Solved

inside

Explorer

1275

CVE-2025-53057 Exploit in Check Point

1275

inside

Explorer

430

Please provide comprehensive and step‑by‑step instructions for configuring a Check Point Quantum Spa

430

inside

Contributor

1079

Knowledge and Solutions to 3 long time bugs (Get Interfaces, RIM failure and VPN Community Routing)

1079

inside

Advisor

1180

Smart-1 Cloud: Is it possible to reboot a managed Gateway from SmartConsole?

1130

Solved

inside

Contributor

3530

SAML Auth failure after upgrade to R82.10

892

inside

Participant

1640

R81.20 Browser-Based Authentication with RADIUS – “Bad username or password”

1640

Solved

inside

Advisor

1698

3950 - Host Access doesn't work for SSH

1698

inside

Collaborator

2435

Unable to work with server or gateway objects

2435

Solved

inside

Contributor

1347

Dedicated Sync Interfaces as an internal or external interface

1347

Solved

inside

Contributor

3296

The best way to remove unused domain objects?

3296

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2648

NAT Rules not matching with new R82 gateway in place.

2648

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1478

R82 MDS migrate_server export syntax error using --ignore_warnings

649

Solved

inside

Explorer

1323

Install database vs install policy

769

inside

Participant

1300

Installing Event Policy EXTREMELY slow on SmartEvent Smart-1 600-S appliance

2887

inside

MVP Diamond

620

high memory load on VSX Maestro

2290

inside

Contributor

1601

Site-to-Site BGP VPN to Azure on Check Point VSX (R81.20) – step-by-step guidance needed

1642

inside

Contributor

637

mgmt ports and main Cluster VIP

637

Solved

inside

Contributor

3364

Did anyone else suffer from recent CPDIAG script update causing their Gateway to lock? - SK184446

1560

inside

Participant

651

Questions about ElasticXL in production real customer experience

651

Solved

inside

Participant

995

FW-rule matches although destination is not part of mentioned FW-group

995

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

774

Cloudguard management upgrade question

774

inside

Explorer

7909

Issues with a scheduled backup

7909

Solved

inside

Participant

1790

Domain Controllers not detected by Identity Collector

802

Solved

inside

Participant

1296

SIC re-establishment for VSX cluster after SMS migration from R81.20 to R82

1296

inside

Contributor

2176

About site-to-site VPN outgoing route selection

2176

inside

Explorer

1127

Why Do You See Two IPS Events in the Log: One as "Detect" and Another as "Prevent"?

1127

Solved

inside

Contributor

1264

VPN Site to Site with Third Party Gateway and using DynDNS

1264

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

3389

Issue with 9100 clusterXL with bond interface enabled

3389

Solved

inside

Advisor

1709

Can the Check Point forward http/s traffic to a "peer proxy"?

1709

inside

Admin

1232

HTTPS Inspection Best Practices December 2025: Video and Slides

1232

inside

Explorer

564

Create a new autonomous Internal IPS profile for internal network

564

Solved

inside

Participant

1034

Inline Layer with Access Roles

1034

inside

Contributor

1577

Smart‑1 7000UL – First Look at Onboarding & Deployment

637

Solved

inside

Advisor

1024

URL Filtering with in-line proxy

1024

inside

MVP Platinum CHKP

2832

Tech Tip - Dynamic Routing: Router-ID

2832

Solved

inside

Contributor

2724

Create whitelist for single IP when using Geo-blocking objects

2724

inside

Advisor

3342

Smart‑1 7000 Ultra – Unboxing Check Point’s Flagship Management Server

1621

inside

Contributor

1378

Connectivity down between a 9100 gateway and a cisco 4500 module

1378

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1744

IKE certificate auto-renewal failure

7998

Solved

inside

Contributor

1756

Upgrade standalone FW from R81 to R82 failed

1756

Solved

inside

Participant

846

Best practices and recommendations for implementing the manager's operating system.

846

inside

MVP Diamond

458

Routing check/tip when moving config from one fw to another

458

inside

Participant

1608

Installing Threat Prevention Policy failes after Upgrade to R82

1608

inside

Admin

1598

Web Filtering Best Practices December 2025: Video and Slides

1598

Solved

inside

Participant

643

After R82 Multi Domain Management Upgrade: VALIDATION Error on SMB interfaces without ip address

643

inside

Participant

1387

After upgrade R82 - RTP (VOIP) not working, with secureXL enabled

1387

Solved

inside

MVP Diamond

1064

ISP redundancy/ PBR /sd-wan question

1064

Solved

inside

Collaborator

844

Getting hitcount information out the NAT Policy per json

844

Solved

inside

Contributor

2502

Quantum Force 3980 Branch Office Security On-Boarding

351

inside

Participant

2245

Admin session is hanged and locked out in the MDS

2245

Solved

inside

Participant

686

Migrate MDS server from R81.20 to R82 one domain at a time

686

inside

Contributor

6141

Not able to configure VSX cluster

6141

inside

Employee

489

Quantum Force 3920 – Seamless Onboarding for Secure Branch Deployments

489

Solved

inside

Advisor

482

MDS - cleanup free disk space settings

482

inside

Contributor

5526

Checkpoint Firewall for ISP provider

5526

inside

Explorer

1703

Slow & Sluggish Performance with Smart-1 Cloud

1703

inside

Contributor

2421

Does ElasticXL really require 4 interfaces?

2421

Solved

inside

Collaborator

2281

Management Server on Nutanix AOS 7 / AHV 10

2281

inside

Employee

508

Quantum Force 3980 – High-Performance Security for Demanding Branch and Mid-Size Environments

508

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1489

VPN management in CLI and Smartview in latest versions

1489

inside

Employee

1098

Quantum Force – The Next Generation of Branch Office Security

1098

inside

Employee

1445

Check Point Quantum Force 3980 Unboxing

1445

Solved

inside

Explorer

1760

What happens when Support Contract Expires?

1760

inside

Advisor

1887

Memory usage on 9000 series appliances

1887

inside

Contributor

1647

Manage Locally-Managed Spark firewall via VPN

796

Solved

inside

Contributor

1459

How to migrate a Standalone 6200 unit to a VM SMS server?

1459

Solved

inside

Participant

2992

Problem with creating LDAP Account Unit

2992

Solved

inside

Participant

1241

Setting up ClusterXL in different DCs

1662

Solved

inside

Collaborator

5755

R82: Site to site VPN authentication issue when using certificates

5755

inside

MVP Silver

761

Intermittency in P2 of an S2S VPN

761

Solved

inside

Contributor

29688

Smart-1 cloud management portal log check issue

2479

Solved

inside

Collaborator

1875

Redundant/Backup IPSEC VPN Options R81.20

1875

inside

Participant

1614

Standalone backups and appliance refresh

1614

inside

Advisor

9798

how to upgrade R81.20 to R82 VM management server

2216

Solved

inside

MVP Silver

1867

Check Point Quantum Force 3920 Unboxing

1388

Solved

inside

Advisor

1960

Can an SMS running R81.20 Take 53 manage a Security Gateway cluster running R81.20 JHF 118?

1960

Solved

inside

Participant

1698

Portal Customization Captive Portal

1698

Solved

inside

Contributor

1010

Quantum Spark 2500 series - HA Pair. Manager required?

1010

inside

Explorer

476

Which Object Needed for Office 365 Deployment?

476

inside

Participant

1431

Whitelisted AWS domains still blocked

1431

Solved

inside

Advisor

10190

IPSEC site to site VPN fails after R80.20 upgrade

10190

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