[avinashmaddy]

Hi All,

I am Switching to 15 inch G4 PowerBook. But the last obstacle
that I need to resolve before buying is the VPN connection (I want to be
able to connect to my work VPN).

My Company uses Checkpoint Firewall/VPN. However, there is no VPN client
for Mac from Checkpoint.

I would like to know if I get the Virtual PC with Windows 2000, if I
will be able to connect to my office VPN.

My office uses the following Windows based client

Checkpoint Next Generation Feature Pack 4 (NGFP4)

I want to know if I can run NGFP4 on VPC to connect to VPN.

If you can provide any information regarding the above, it will be
great.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Avinash

[dmeson]

I'm not sure about Checkpoint, but if it uses Chap then the built in VPN client should work. My employer uses FreeSwan as their vpn (ipsec based). I had them spring for 'VPN Tracker' for my TiBook.

They have some free versions, but I found 'VPN Tracker' easier to use.

I can't imagine using VPN over VPC much fun.

[rsabbagh]

I'm in the same situation with Checkpoint. I've tried VPN tracker with no suuccess. I am currently using Checkpoint NG client inside of VPC and it works ok. You can only connect from the VPC OS however, not from OSX. Funny that Checkpoint has a Linux as well as a Solaris version, how hard could it be to just recompile for OSX (FreeBSD).