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Community Highlights
Here are some highlights from the week's activity on CheckMates:
You can definitely install R80.10 on a 2200--as a gateway only, though (not with local management).
If you've made a Check Point Security Gateway establish a VPN with a non-Check Point product, please share your experiences here to help the community!
If you're looking to utilize the ISP Redundancy feature along with Policy-Based Routing or NAT, have a look at this thread!
A nice thread where the community successfully troubleshooted an issue with Proxy ARP
Danny Jung strikes again, providing a helpful worksheet you can use when setting up a VPN with a remote partner.
Did You Know...
You can respond to the emails you get from CheckMates to update a thread?
Some of you are clearly using this feature, and it's worth repeating this tip again and the associated warning: make sure if you use this feature, your email response doesn't include any signature information or it will be posted along with your messages! I've edited a few messages to remove this information.
Unless you've disabled email notifications on your account, which you can do here, you should get an email for new responses on a given thread or content you have chosen to follow, which you can do from the Actions menu:
When you get the email, it will look something like this:
Simply respond to the email like you would any other:
Your email will appear in the relevant thread as a reply to the comment you are responding to:
A word of warning: Make sure to disable your email signature on these emails as they will be included in your post to CheckMates. You may not want that.
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