Linux FreeS/WAN and Checkpoint Firewall1

Jsutin asks: "Does anyone have a working FreeS/WAN implementation talking to Checkpoint Firewall1? I've searched through a lot of Linux archives, FreeS/WAN archives, sent people email, and last but not least asked God to help me. And unfortunately all has fallen through! I've run across a few threads here and there that say it can be done but no documents explaining how to do it. I'm trying to push Linux as a VPN gateway for remote offices and would be greatly appreciative if anyone reading this has any suggestions?" "

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This is one thread I hope picks up soon

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This is a question I, personally, would love to have answered. We use Checkpoint FW/1 on Solaris where I work. It's a bit of a pain to get into the office network from outside (say, via my dialup account from Mindspring) when using Linux. The SecuRemote clients exist only for Windows. If Free S/WAN will let me use my home dialup router/firewall (Linux) machine as a VPN client, yay.

I hunted through the mail-list archive and found the following:

• The Question. More or less content-free.
• Some info, some questions.
• Some answers to the above questions. Like, FreeSwan no longer supports plain DES; you have to use 3DES. And, "Manual-key setup has to be done on *both* ends"
• This guy is willing to pay for help.
• Assload of debugging data, from Interop setup.

Looking other places (Google, Yahoo, etc), I found this:

• Here is a list of Checkpoint partners and things that work with a Checkpoint firewall. Not comprehensive.
• OPSEC ("Open Platform for Security")site. Stuff that works with Firewall-1 and other OPSEC-compliant firewalls. I don't know if there are any besides FW-1.
• IPSec for FreeBSD
• Some IPSec software from MIT
• The people who make SSH also have IPSec/IKE products.

... anyone know of anything else?