Re: Checkpoint VPN1-Edge connectivity problem

marco scafidi wrote:

> In my company we use for our remote sites the Checkpoint VPN1-Edge
> firewalls. We make very few configuration on it: we don't create any rules ,
> we don't use the dmz port, we use those devices almost only for VPN
> encryption to connect the remote lans to our central firewall an ADSL or
> HDSL Internet connection. On some of those firewalls we recognised a strange
> problem: sometimes, without any visible reason some nodes lose all
> connectivity between the node itself and Internet. The router is always
> working, and the lan connectivity for the node too. The only solution we've
> found is to unplug the firewall power cable: after that the situation
> becomes normal again.. We have about 5 of this devices and 3 have already
> shown this problem. Our reseller doesn't know any particular problem on this
> model of checkpoint firewall so we don't know what to do ( we have to buy
> many other vpn firewalls). Anyone has already experimented this problem?
> There is a solution or it's an hardware/software factory fault?
>
>  
have you tried to set "Keep alive the connection" in the VPN setup menu
? (iirc, it's the last step before you setup a VPN tunnel using  the
webinterface ?
it's just below the vpn connection name)

hth,

sin

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