As other people have, I have trouble with the vpn client from checkpoint. I'm actually using:
“Check Point VPN-1 SecureClient NG with Application Intelligence - R56; Build number:001”
extracted from the package SecureClient_B612001001_1_MACOSX.pkg.zip available on the http://www.checkpoint.com website.
When I turn it on, a strange process named “airport” uses 100% of CPU power. Why do I say strange? Because If I kill it, it doesn't affect my actual airport connection neither my established vpn connection! You can manually kill the process with the terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
top -o cpu
and with the pid do:
sudo kill -9 #pid
or use the Command+Option+Escape shortcut to kill (Force to quit) the process if you have the rights to do that!
The first thing I did is to write a small Automator application that do some stuff automatically. The first one, that I found in the FAQ section of the release_notes.pdf (in /opt/CPsrsc-50) is to avoid SecureClient from starting up automatically when I log in.
Shell:/bin/tcsh
if ( -f /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist ) then source /opt/CPsrsc-50/.cshrc StartupItemsMgr remove $SRDIR/bin/SecureClient.app endif
The second one, is to launch SecureClient.app and look if the strange “airport” process is present. If it is the case, I kill it!
Shell:/bin/bash
secureClient="/opt/CPsrsc-50/bin/SecureClient.app" if [ -d $secureClient ]; then open $secureClient else exit fi processes=$(ps -A | grep airport | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }') for processe in $processes; do kill -9 $processe done
It seems that a build 002 is available. But I didn't try it for now!