[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [FW1] Warning: No Upgrade path from 4.1 SP0 to Checkpoint 200 0 (4.1 SP1) or beyond
Whoever told you this information is pretty much wrong. I would find out the engineers name, and report your issue to his manager. You cannot trust Checkpoint support in my opinion. They have many people that are very good, but they have just enough cluebies answering the phones there to REALLY bigtime screw up people that arent totally 100% sure of what they are doing. The only way to them out is by letting the managers know. In fairness to Checkpoint, their business has exploded, and they have been having alot of growing pains, and as we all know, experienced FW-1 engineers arent growing on trees. My advice to anyone is not to rely on Checkpoint support alone. Work with a VAR that has long term experience with the products, and can assist you through trying times such as this one. There are supposed to be some MAJOR changes to CP's tech support this year, so stay tuned!! Frank -----Original Message----- From: Greg Winkler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW1] Warning: No Upgrade path from 4.1 SP0 to Checkpoint 2000 (4.1 SP1) or beyond Caution to readers: I've just got off the phone with Checkpoint Support and my blood pressure has yet to return to normal, please take this into account before you direct any flames towards me. I'm attempting a service pack install of 4.1 SP2 on top of 4.1 SP0. I ran into a slight problem (If you want the details of that problem and a fellow admins proposed fix I've attached them below). I called Checkpoint Support to get their read on the problem and a fix. The fix according to Checkpoint is to Uninstall and then Reinstall all of my firewall's and management stations using a Checkpoint 2000 CD! Is it just me or is this a completely absurd solution? (Do Microsoft and Checkpoint share the same tech support group?) It seems that I was one of the few "unlucky" customers, or should I say "victims", to receive a 4.1 CD. Note that this CD is not the same as the Checkpoint 2000 CD which was made available a few months after the CD I received. The Checkpoint 2000 CD supposedly contains v4.1 with SP1 already applied. The CD that I have, and used for my upgrade from v4.0 to v4.1, contains no service pack and is not considered as the offical Checkpoint 2000 release. Per Checkpoint there is not a standalone SP1 release that can be applied over 4.1. Instead, the "officially supported" method to get to Checkpoint 2000 is to upgrade from v4.0 to Checkpoint 2000. Note that there is not a path from a path to upgrade from v4.1 to 2000 or beyond. Instead, if you are one of the unlucky customers, who happened to upgrade to the v4.1 release immediately prior to the 2000 release, you are SCREWED! Your only choice is to uninstall and reinstall to get yourself back into a support upgrade path. Now this is the gist of the conversation between myself and Checkpoint Support. Now I've heard the horror stories of calling support and getting some nitwit who really doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm praying that this is the case here. Can someone help set this straight? I know there have to be a few hundred if not thousands of folks out there in the same boat as myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Greg Winkler Systems Manager, IT&S Huntsman Corporation Internet Mail: [email protected] Voice:Fax:----- Forwarded by Greg Winkler/US/HO/HUNTSMAN on 01/04/2001 08:48 AM ----- [email protected] ardier.com To: Greg Winkler/US/HO/HUNTSMAN@HUNTSMAN cc: [email protected] 01/03/2001 08:11 PM Subject: Re: [FW1] fwdtmquery.dll not found after 4.1 SP2 install I had the same problem. If you have the 4.1.2 CD there is a package that have the specify directory CD:\windows\CPdtm-41 Juste installed it. Sylvain "Greg Winkler" <[email protected]> on 01/03/2001 16:38:10 To: [email protected] cc: (bcc: Sylvain Leblanc/MTD/BTG/Bombardier) Subject: [FW1] fwdtmquery.dll not found after 4.1 SP2 install Hello All, I just installed FW1 4.1 SP2 on a newly installed firewall. Upon rebooting the system I received this error in the event log of the FW machine. FireWall-1: dtm_query_init: Failed to load DTMQuery DLL E: \FW1\4.1\lib\fwdtmquery.dll: The specified module could not be found. Anyone seen this before? Checked Checkpoint's secureknowlege DB and phoneboy and didn't see anything. Also a complaint about the fw.logtrack file but I stopped the firewall, deleted that file, and restarted it and the problem went that problem went away. The dtm_query_init issue still remains. The details are: Brand new firewall install. Only installing VPN-1 FW module, no management. Using an eval license for the time being. NT 4.0 SP6a The initial setup was with 4.1 SP0. It worked fine, with no reported errors in the event viewer. Installed FW1 SP2 and whamo, this problem. Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Greg Winkler Systems Manager, IT&S Huntsman Corporation Internet Mail: [email protected] Voice:Fax:============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ============================================================================ ==== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ============================================================================ ==== ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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