firewall

Problem Last week I came across a DHCP problem. Devices from certain VLAN were not getting DHCP assigned IP. Even though firewall policy should have

When connecting to checkpoint gateways, there may be a delay of 5 or more seconds when waiting for the password prompt. This is due a

Due to some network infrastructure changes, the traffic passing through my internal FW (a Checkpoint VSX virtual system) started to suffer latency and packet loss.

There are several reasons to force a failover on a firewall cluster (in this case a virtual system on a 2 node Checkpoint VSX cluster)