Routing packets after removing policy

After removing policy of the firewall with "fw unloadlocal" some packets are not routable.

It's needed to change a value:

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How to enable traffic on backup Firewall

In a clustered environment, we cannot communicate directly to the backup Firewall, an example is: ping the backup Firewall.

To solve this problem we can run this command on both Firewalls.

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How To Convert Hex to Decimals Using Bash

When you're troubleshooting Check Point kernel tables (by using 'fw tab') sometimes the -f parameter is not available to format the output, usually from hex to decimal format. Which makes your life very difficult if you're already addicted to the -f flag.

So if you're not familiar or willing to convert in your head hex to decimal. Or you don't want to open the Windows calculator in the Programmer's view or even don't have that available, bash can help you out. You can easily convert from hex to decimal and the other way aroung using the printf command. See below:

How To Temporarily Disable Gaia's Bash Time Out

For Check Point system administrators used to SecurePlatform way to disable bash time out, Gaia sometimes can be tricky. Just because the 'idle' command simply does not exist in Gaia's bash.

To temporarily disable the bash's time-out in Gaia you basically unset the environment variable responsible for this function using the command 'unset' (see image below).