Check Point Gaia is the next generation Secure Operating System for all Check Point Appliances, Open Servers and Virtualized Gateways.
Gaia combines the best features from IPSO and SecurePlatform (SPLAT) into a single unified OS providing greater efficiency and robust performance. By upgrading to Gaia, customers will benefit from improved appliance connection capacity and reduced operating costs. With Gaia, IP Appliance customers will gain the ability to leverage the full breadth and power of all Check Point Software Blades.
Gaia secures IPv6 networks utilizing the Check Point Acceleration & Clustering technology and it protects the most dynamic network and virtualized environments by supporting 5 different dynamic routing protocols. As a 64-Bit OS, Gaia increases the connection capacity of existing appliances supporting up-to 10M concurrent connections for select 2012 Models.
Gaia simplifies management with segregation of duties by enabling role-based administrative access. Furthermore, Gaia greatly increases operation efficiency by offering Automatic Software Update.
The feature-rich Web interface allows for search of any command or property in a second.
Gaia provides backward compatibility with IPSO and SPLAT CLI-style commands making it an easy transition for existing Check Point customers.
Yes. The in-place upgrade process is exactly the same as the process used to upgrade from one SecuePlatform release to a newer one. For more details on the upgrade process, refer to sk70260.
Yes, but the upgrade process is different than upgrading from one version of IPSO to a newer one. The upgrade process from IPSO to Gaia is documented in sk70260.
Proxy ARP is a firewall feature, not an OS feature. You can control Proxy ARP using the standard methods (SmartDashboard and $FWDIR/conf/local.arp) documented in sk30197.
Support for PPPoE interfaces. See sk79880 for information about SecureXL known limitations with regards to PPPoE.
SNMP Traps can be configured to be sent if RAID issues occur.
TACACS+ authentication.
e1000 driver has been updated to version 7.6.15.
Monitor mode now works on 10GbE ports, effectively implementing sk73180. In addition, "one legged" bridge is created automatically, when enabling monitor mode, effectively implementing sk70900.
2012 appliances now have the ability to automatically fetch a license during the First Time Wizard.