Monthly Archives: May 2009

Resolving SecureClient “cannot connect to gateway” problems

After a lot of painful diagnosing I found that my Netgear Router has a setting for “NAT Filtering” that defaults to Secure…and when set to Open it resolves a frustrating problem with the Checkpoint SecureClient VPN software which was causing “Cannot connect to gateway” problems. I found lots of threads online but nothing clear (and [...]

The Mac is Good

I’ve had Apple computers off an on since 1980. I remember a IIci that I dragged across country and back. But it’s really been a Windows world for me for most of the past 15 years, I’d say. Not anymore. A sweet little Aluminum Macbook and the 10.5 release of the OS (Leopard) has won [...]