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Check Point Commands

There are a lot of Check Point specific commands really helpful with general administration, troubleshooting and tuning of Check Point firewalls. On this page, some of those commands will be explained in more detail Topics Discussed General Administration Forcing Failovers Connection Table Troubleshooting Kernel Debugs VPN Performance Tuning Enable Multiqueu …

Helper Scripts

Helper Scripts This article is dedicated to small scripts that can help make life easier. IP Conversion The quad dot IP notation is most used in networking, but sometimes under the hood hex is used. Therefore, it is convenient to be able to quickly convert hexadecimal IP notation to decimal …

Performance of Check Point firewalls

Check Point uses various technologies to enhance performance of their firewalls. Two important techonologies are SecureXL and CoreXL. SecureXL provides packet acceleration, which ensures that not every passing packet has to be inspected by the CPU. CoreXL divides the firewall load across multiple processing cores. In this article, both technologies …