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Did you know fw ctl zdebug had so many useful combinations?
This will be in R80.20. You can play with the Early Availability version now: Check Point R80.20 Production and Public EA
This feature does exist in R80.10 but had a bug, fixed in SmartConsole R80.10 build 42.
If you want to experiment with the R80.x Management API without firing up a local VM, here's how you can use R80.x Demo Mode to do it!
While not officially supported, you can do it with the following workaround.
Good reason to upgrade to JHF113 or later ![]()
Another good reason to upgrade to the latest jumbo hotfix.
Using the R80.x Management API, yes you can. This wasn't possible on R77.x and earlier.
NAT64: something that didn't make the cut in R80.10 that is coming back to R80.20. Also looks like NAT46 is coming as well!
If you're troubleshooting why a site isn't categorizing properly (when it did previously), flushing the cache might not be a bad idea.
May be useful in contexts beyond UserCheck portals for SandBlast.
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