Checkpoint NG/NGX




Increase the limit and rotate SSH log files in Checkpoint firewall

All modern Operating Sytems today provide extensive logging facilities, and Linux on which Checkpoint products are based is no exception. I talk about the SSHD daemon, not Secure Rules, logs. The SSHD logs, located in /var/log/ are rotated by default every 4 logfiles. I found it very useful to …



Manage VPN tunnels smartly: forget vpn tu,enter the vpn shell

Deleting IKE/IPsec security associations of established VPNs is inevitable part of any VPN related debug. The standard tool promoted by Checkpoint (take CCSA,CCSE etc.,) is vpn tu that neveretheless has always had a very annoying bug (feature?) - you can delete ALL VPN tunnels at a time and none …