I have spotted one pleasant peculiarity (feature) of CheckPoint VPN SecureClient on Mac OS X - it warns user of imminent session expiration. In my 4 years of usage, the PC version warns you only when you have lost connectivity, and annoys user with "Reconnect" requests for new RSA code.
But that, magically, never happens on a Mac. In fact, Mac users are politely warned BEFORE issues occur.
How gentle and nice of you, CheckPoint!
BTW if I was to compare CheckPoint VPN to Cisco VPN, I must say that Cisco has one annoying feature turned on by default, and it takes a lot extra effort to fix that - all traffic goes to VPN tunnel.
This means that if remote secure network does not support a service you want to have (SMTP, POP, Skype, whatever), you're toast until you disconnect.
Quite important for telecommuters.
All in all (taken into consideration the admin tools) CheckPoint software is much more usable and has better GUI.
I only wished their installers properly removed (upgraded) their previous versions...
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