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You will also need to know the url, username and password for your own checkpoint login site. I found it useful to browse to the Verify Java Version site in Firefox to verify that java is working. Let me tell you now that your future is full of warnings like, This Connection is Untrusted, I understand the Risks, Add Exception, Confirm Security Exception, allow, allow remember, continue, run, allow, trust server, etc etc.

used dd to transfer the image to usb stick.

downloaded the most prominent ISO on offer at the projects main page.

With all the distributions I did the following: Switch to a different browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari on Mac) to run the Java plug-in.ĭespite all this, it still uses the native client but with the “unsupported” -Z option. The Chrome browser does not support NPAPI plug-ins and therefore will not run all Java content.

Chrome gives this helpful message on the Java website:

This is a major pain as it requires (from my experience) X server, Oracle Java, and the FireFox browser to run. Access is still possible, but only via the “ SSL Network Extender“.

This prevents scripting logins, and also requires a heavy desktop when we were able to survive with a headless server. These requirements may not apply to you so feel free to add the instructions for your distro of choice to the comments below.Īs of build 800007075 Checkpoint no longer support using the Native Client on the command line. This explains why Debian is not in this list. My focus was on distributions whose ISO downloads supported UEFI boot, and hard disk encryption out of the box. I decided to do a round up of how to install the software needed on GNU/Linux to enable access through a CheckPoint firewall.