VPN connection to a CheckPoint Firewall / FW-1

I need to connect to a VPN from Fedora Core 1. The only way at the moment is to use CheckPoint SecureRemote,
because the VPN server is using CheckPoint Firewall / FW-1 ( dont know the version ).
It's a colocation site / data centre.


The alternatives that I have found are:

1) Use CheckPoint's SecureRemote on linux:

http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/downloads_sr.html

Unfortunately, it will only work with RedHat 7.2/7.3 kernels, specifically ( from their documentation ):

RedHat Linux version 7.2 & 7.3, kernel versions 2.4.9-7, 2.4.9-33, 2.4.18-5 and 2.4.18-10

http://www.checkpoint.com/techsuppor...uild_53328.pdf



2) Use FreeSWAN. However, FreeSWAN development has stopped.

CheckPoint has a document on how to connect from FreeSWAN:

http://support.checkpoint.com/kb/doc...w-linuxvpn.pdf

Unfortunately, it is quite old ( was still referring to RH 6.2 ) and it looks like that you need a fixed IP on the client side.


3) Use CheckPoint's SecureRemote on linux on a RH 7.x guest OS using user-mode-linux with Fedora as the host OS.

Unfortunately, binary only modules will not work with user-mode-linux kernels.


4) Use CheckPoint's SecureRemote on linux on a RH 7.x guest OS using plex86 with Fedora as the host OS.

However, there has been no activitity on plex86


5) Use CheckPoint's SecureRemote on winnt4/win2k guest OS using bochs with Fedora as the host OS.

However, was told that this will be too slow for everyday use.


6) Use CheckPoint's SecureRemote on linux on a RH 7.x guest OS using bochs with Fedora as the host OS.

Have not tried yet


7) Use VMWare to run RH 7.2 guest OS on a Fedora host OS.

However, although it may work, it is an unsupported configuration since they will not support Fedora as the host OS.

http://www.microway.com.au/catalog/v...tion_specs.stm

Forgot to post my actually question:

Has anyone successfully connected to a VPN through a CheckPoint Firewall /FW-1,
from a Fedora installaton preferrably ?

1) ... from a dial-up connection to an ISP, thereby getting a dynamic IP

2) ... from within a LAN with private IP addresses using NAT on a single IP address ( assigned by ISP via an ADSL connection )