This morning R71.30 is now public EA (Early Availability). “What’s New” from the release notes:
New VPN Client Support
Endpoint Security VPN R75 (SecureClient Next Generation) for Windows 7 32bit/64bit
Check Point Mobile for iPhone and iPad
Provider-1
Adds SNMP Thresholds to enhance SNMP monitoring & trapping
Adds tooltip to display name and IP of group objects
Lets you copy network and host objects between CMAs with drag & drop between SmartDashboard sessions of different CMAs
Improves SmartDashboard so that global objects function like local objects
Tooltip displays the object’s details
Double-click opens a read only dialog with the object’s details
Lets the CMA administrator choose to assign the global policy to specific local policy packages
Lets you restore a specific CMA from a backup of the entire tp_mdsfull with the export_mds utility
SmartDashboard
Lets you make changes in SmartDashboard during Policy Installation
Lets you switch between Read/Write and Read-Only modes in SmartDashboard
ECMP for OSPF
The OSPF routing protocol in Check Point’s dynamic routing suite explicitly allows Equal-Cost Multi-Path
(ECMP) routing, a strategy for routing packets along multiple “best paths” of equal cost. By load balancing
traffic over multiple (redundant) routes, ECMP increases network bandwidth.
Check Point’s dynamic routing suite supports up to six simultaneous routes, which means that up to six
multiple routes can be used for ECMP. If the routing metric calculations discovers more than six paths of
equal cost to the same destination, the ECMP feature makes available only the first six.