Dimitris,

I have gotten at least 10-15 VPNs working between Sidewinder and Checkpoint.  I always 
set up the Sidewinder side then.  I just started working with Checkpoint so I am not 
too experieced with Firewall-1.  The only time I ever had a problem was when the 
Security Association (encryption domain) did not match on both sides.  This means the 
crypto and networks. I also encountered one issue where the Checkpoint guy was doing 
clustering and although I would connect to his cluster address for the VPN he would 
respond from his real IP address.  This, of course, did not work.  What do the 
Sidewinder logs give as an error?  My experience so far has been that the Sidewinder 
has more useful error messages than Checkpoint for VPN.  If the Sidewinder admin calls 
Secure Computing for support they will help him set up this VPN as well.  You might 
want to try setting your encrypt rule to any traffic rather than ICMP too just for 
testing purposes.  The error your Checkpoint device is giving i!
 s generally indicative of a mismatched SA.  Both of these products are certified by 
ICSA Labs so you could go to www.icsalabs.com and see if there is anything useful in 
their lab configuration notes.  They used to list which VPN devices each certified 
product was tested against and how to configure them.

Regards,
Jeffery Gieser

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