We use a VPN solution called SecureClient at SI, made by a company called CheckPoint.

Unfortunately we’ve had all sorts of hassles with it’s Mac support over the years. Now, surprise surprise, MacOS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) comes out, and what do you know? Checkpoint doesn’t work!

This is despite the fact that as registered developers with Apple we’ve had access to pre-release versions of Leopard for months and months, and so, presumably, have CheckPoint (if they wanted).

Luckily, there seems to be another option. We’ve discovered something called IPSecuritas. This seems to work with our VPN hardware, supports 10.5, and best of all, it’s free.