Hello, I am getting balder by the minute after ripping my hair out. I am having a lot of trouble trying to get SCV to work. We are using Splat NG (R55) I have got SC working fine, using connect mode and office mode with IP pools etc. Everything works great without SCV. Our rule base is in traditional mode, as soon as I enable SCV verification in the rule which controls SC I come into problems. I can connect and login to the policy server from the client, all looks good in the logs. The client even logs 'SCV Policy: Policy is up to date'. I have left the local.scv untouched. Then I try to connect to a node in the encdom (eg telnet). The tracker shows the rule being accepted and decrypted but the client times out. Then after a short period the following entry appears in the tracker: Source: ######### Number: 30916 Date: 17Feb2004 Time: 15:30:28 Product: VPN-1 & FireWall-1 Interface: eth1 Type: Log Action: Drop Protocol: tcp Service: telnet (23) Destination: ######### Rule: 12 Source Port: 1056 User: matt Encryption Scheme: IKE VPN Peer Gateway: ############# Encryption Methods: ESP: 3DES + SHA1 Information: scv_user: ###; scv_message_info: Client's configuration is not verified By the looks of it the firewall isn't acknowledging that the client isn't SCV'd correctly!! I have tried a lot of suggestions (see following) etc, from CP knowledge base: Tried enabling control connections for the scv_keep_alive packets, also tried a manual rule for it. Allowed fw node rule to access client on desktop rule for all ports. Tried disabling all options in the global properties of SCV, ie allow client but log. Still doesn't work. I've tried the :dont_enforce_while_connecting (true) in the local.scv file Configured the gateway to allow stateful ICMP errors (was enabled anyway) enabled back connections disabled HUB mode Checked UDP 18233 is allowed through routers before gateway. I've run into a dead end as to why the client can't be verified by the FW!! I really want to get SCV to work. If anyone could help me or give me some pointers I would really really appreciate it. I will even send you the money to buy a beer Thanks Souly