Re: Checkpoint for internet access

[Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden () navius com>]

Andrew,

WIth all due respect, you obviously know nothing about routing and should
stay totally away from the firewall.  I hate to dissapoint you, but even your
proxy server had a default route pointing to something - most likely a router
that is connected to the Internet.  If you don't use a default route, you 
would either have to run some sort of dynamic routing protocol with your
router or add static routes for every conceivable address on the Internet that
your users would be likely to need.

Sorry,

Brad Van Orden
Navius Technologies

Andrew J Bernoth/Boulder/IBM wrote:
> G'day Wizards,
>
> Please bear with me if this is basic knowledge, I have not played with
> Checkpoint yet.
>
> I have a checkpoint administrator with his firewall providing access to the
> internet.  I don't really like the idea of having a default route pointing
> out to the internet, but he assures me this is the only configuration the
> Checkpoint can do.  Is this true?  How do others deal with this?
>
> I am more used to either a socks or proxy configuration for an internet
> firewall.

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