My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This is a short list of Checkpoint VSX Commands that I am compiling as I continue to work with CheckPoint VSX systems. The list is not comprehensive and may not work for everyone, so if you see errors, please contact me so I may correct them. Thanks! /ryan Check Point CLI "CP" Commands CLI Command Command Description vsx get View current shell … [Read more...]
Check Point Quick Reference – Tcpdump
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. NOTE: fw monitor operates above layer 2 and does not include mac address information - cant see ARP messages. tcpdump can see layer 2 ARP messages This is one of the most common tcpdump commands: (looks for packets from a src to dst, need to specify interface) tcpdump nn-i eth2 host 11.11.11.11 and host 22.22.22.22 08:02:15.043273 11.11.11.11.62044 > … [Read more...]
Check Point Quick Reference – FW Monitor
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Overview: FW Monitor is a built-in firewall tool which needs no separate install on the device you wish to capture packets and interrogate connections. It is a functionality provided with the installation of the FW-1 package and syntax is also identical across all FW-1 installations. FW Monitor allows for sampling the connection from 4 different points in the firewall, … [Read more...]
Firewall Commands For Identifying Specific Routes
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. The Question: Using firewall commands, identify the route to specific destination/target without using the routing table (more specific) I was asked the question today, and blanked out... I have ran the Cisco and CheckPoint IPSO versions, but not Splat and still couldn't pull it from memory. Once I looked it up I felt silly, but knew it will be a good addition to my … [Read more...]
CheckPoint SmartDashboard – Missing Menu
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Hello All. I was bouncing around in the Checkpoint SmartDashboard, updating rules in some firewalls and noticed that the menu bar at the top of the window was missing... After some searching, I found that a registry setting needed to be modified to restore the SmartDashboard menu bar. Here is the registry path that needed to be … [Read more...]
FTP Client Authentication Syntax For BlueCoat ProxySG
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. In this example the syntax used is the "Checkpoint" method. FileZilla Open FileZilla Edit-->Settings...-->FTP-->FTP Proxy-->Click Custom-->Enter the syntax below: USER %u@%s@%h PASS %p@%w Fill in the following: Proxy Host - 123.123.123.123 Proxy User - NTID Proxy Pass - NTPass Click OK to get to the main screen again. Fill in the … [Read more...]
Blue Coat – HowTo Set Up A Policy Trace To Debug Access Issues
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Problem Description: Policy tracing is primarily used when debugging access to web sites. When something is allowed and it should be denied, or vice-versa, using the policy trace feature is the best way to diagnose the issue. Resolution: Enabling a policy trace Open the “Configuration” tab, expand “Policy” radio button Launch the visual policy … [Read more...]
Useful Stuff
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. This post is a quasi-holding place for uncategorized things at the moment, with no rhyme or reason as to why its here or somewhere else: SCP files from a linux box or firewall to another linux box: SYNTAX = scp /path/to/local/file user@remote_host:/path/to/file/on/remote/host EXAMPLE = scp /var/tmp/todays-date-kernel-debug.tgz … [Read more...]
Check Point Firewall – Nokia IPSO CST Hanging or Taking Forever?
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Is your Nokia IPSO CST Not finishing? Trying to run a CST on your Nokia, but seems to be taking forever? I have had the same issue on various Nokia security appliances running on IPSO 4.2 and older. The problem ended up being hung process that was spawned by the CST program. It seems that CST calls "fw tab -u -t", and sometimes it just gets hung up, but will look to … [Read more...]
Check Point Firewall – Detect SSH over Non Standard Ports
My Engineering Years: this post is from my early hands-on infrastructure days, kept for reference. See the rest of this era. Many enterprises deploy proxies these days, but many are not aware that if they are not configured correctly they may be allowing SSH over Non Standard Ports, giving a tech savvy employee the keys to exploit this fault. Most times this is SSH over HTTP/HTTPS, but can also be over other ports, which is less common. Blue Coat proxies detect and drop this type of activity by … [Read more...]