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Subject: Re: FW-1 VPN Doesn't Work (Checkpoint and Sun stumped) anyone help ?
From: "Darwin L. Martinez" <darwin_martinez @ INS . COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 06:17:21 -0500
To: "Martin C. Walker" <martinw @ fluidsysuk . epcorp . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

2.1a is "buggy". We had many problems until upgrading to 2.1c. that my be
your answer.

At 06:45 AM 1/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All !
>
>Blimey !  FW-1 has more bugs than sendmail ;-> Well, ok maybe not THAT many !
>Anyway I'm in dire need of help !
>
>I'm over here in jolly old England deploying a 2nd FW-1/Solaris x86 machine.
>FW-1 is 2.1a (Suns latest release) and solaris 2.5.1 x86.  We cannot get the
>firewall here and the (same) one in the US to exchange keys.
>
>Each machine is set up as it's own CA (ie FW-A CA defined as "local" on FW-A
>and "remote, FW-B" on FW-B.  FW-B is setup in the same fashion).  I can get
>both CA keys exchanged.  I can get ONE machine to send its encryption key
>to the other, but I can't get the final encryption key exchanged.  Instead I
>get "Certificate Authority (FW-A) does not have key defined for FW-A".
>
>We are running a VERY simple NAT configuration, one rule which just hides
>everything behind the EXTERNAL addess of the respective firewall.  The rule
>base
>is "any, any, any accept" - can't be much simpler than that.
>
>If anyone has any ideas pls let me know.....btw I am sure this is NOT a
config
>problem but if you have any idea...  I spent ALL YESTERDAY on the phone
>with the
>best suppt person sun has to offer and sone guy from checkpoint too....they
>were
>stumped (and my bloody ear hurts too from the phone :-()
>
>I'd also like to hear from ANYONE who is running VPN and NAT with FW-1 on
>any platform, Sun and Checkpoint as much as told me that NO-ONE is doing it
>on my platform, they certainly didn't test it !
>
>
>
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