Hi everyone, I’m trying to block WhatsApp on my network using Check Point. I have applied the relevant policies and added the WhatsApp application categories/tags within Application Control. The pa...
Hello everyone! We’ve encountered the following phenomenon: many websites don’t fully load when opened (for example, Reddit, GitHub, etc.). In the logs, we see the following events (see attached scr...
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In recent years, I have repeatedly noticed confusion regarding the following terms: KSFW, USFW, UPPAK, and KPPAK, which sometimes led to incorrect modules being switched. Therefore, I’ve written a sh...
Since the general availability of Windows 11 24H2, we're noticing around 50% of Windows machines updated to 24H2 are failing to connect with the Remote Access VPN. I noticed that with the release of...
The following one-liner identifies all rules with a hit count of 0 entries. Depending on your environment, you may need to adjust the policy name to ensure the command runs against the correct config...
Hello, For a project that I am working on, where the Check Point VM can be destroyed and brought back up, I am trying to automatically assign the Management interface via DHCP client. This works fin...
Can someone explain the inconsistency with sk177714 (in-place upgrade of an R81.20 SmartCenter in CloudGuard) versus what is actually happening on the server?
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I’ve noticed that in a VSX environment the virtual switches don’t seem to achieve very high packet throughput. In practice, I can’t get more than around 4–5 Gbps over a wrp interface. When I connec...
I have 2 site-site VPN tunnels going out to AWS, but I can't seem to force a failover to make sure redundancy is working. We have a cluster of 2 19100 appliances, so I know redundancy would work if w...
