Newbee Info

1999-08-24 Thread Ben Cuthbert
Has anyone tried to run the firewall-1 under linux. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

ZEN (Zero Effort Networking)

1999-08-24 Thread Iucidsaint
Does anyone know anything about ZEN (Zero Effort Networking)? Is it reliable? Thanks, lucid. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: ZEN (Zero Effort Networking)

1999-08-24 Thread Jean Morissette
I have implemented it many times and it works great (the latest release 2.0 seems to be fine too but I am still waiting for client's feedback), I find it easier to secure/manage Windows 9x desktops (more centralized management). But if you really need security at the desktop you need something

RE: DNS ..where to put..DMZ or ...

1999-08-24 Thread Burgess, Jeff
If you are looking for the home of the DNS server authoritative for your external web server, it should go in the DMZ, it should contain information ONLY for your DMZ, I.E. your dns record for your web and mail servers, you'll probably have a forwarding record pointing to a root DNS server. If

No Subject

1999-08-24 Thread Olaf Ihmig
Hallo, i have a problem with squid-gw: I want to redirect port 80 to port 8213 where squid-gw listen. Ipfwadm redirect port 80 to port 8213 and its work fine. But the problem is, even if i use "Direct Connection to Internet" Option on Netscape/IExplorer, i get: Error detected by squid-gw: Bad

Re: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread peter pajak
not exactly, since all NICs on sun boxes always have the same mac address (burnt into the motherboard) all switches are designed to handle that all right. besides, all comunications start with the ip address being mapped to mac address by arp, so the switch port which has the ip address you

Re: Port 8080 Scans - Democracy ?

1999-08-24 Thread Peter da Silva
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Chamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Often these scans are coming from China, so I started thinking that maybe these were students looking for a relay point to surf the web without being blocked, a little freedom of information, and that I was doing a disservice

RE: Re: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Joe M Hoffman
It is my impression that what was meant by "compromising" the card was utilization of MAC spoofing But I could be wrong Also this brings up a project that I am currently involved with and that is the dangers of MAC spoofing in relationship to Cisco's Catalysts 5000. All and any

VPN Best low cost solution?

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Arroyo
I need a VPN solution for my company. Cost of the solution is a factor. Can anyone help me with their expertise and experience with choosing a solution. Should I use a router based system. Or do something like a Gaunlet VPN system that Network Associates just came up with. Any suggestions would

Re: Question about LOpht Security Advisory

1999-08-24 Thread James Strompolis
For some reason I can't pull up the full advisory at the moment to re-read it. Would it not be possible for another dial up user on the same ISP to do the same thing as a cable modem user and change the route? At home, I'm on a cable modem so the issue concerned me momentarily until reading

[Disaster] Recovery of Internet Connection

1999-08-24 Thread Newcomb, Kelly
Greetings, Can someone point me to any resources concerning the recovery of an Internet connection, say, at a hotsite, for example? I'm interested in issues surrounding routes routers, firewall, ISP, DNS, etc. TIA, Kelly --- Kelly Newcomb, CISSP Technical Risk Assessment Consultant Texas

FW: DNS ..where to put..DMZ or ...

1999-08-24 Thread David Watson
Title: FW: DNS ..where to put..DMZ or ... I'm new with Fire Wall security. My superior seems to know more about it. but after this message I have my doubts. Can anyone help? -Original Message- From: X Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 9:01 AM To: David Watson Subject: RE:

pkt flt for Exchange?

1999-08-24 Thread Len Conrad
For an dedicated Exchange server doing just smtp mail with Internet (ie, no POP3, no IMAP, no LDAP) with its own public ip address, what are the recommendations for packet filtering? block all ports except 25? No other ports need to be open? tia, Len - [To unsubscribe, send mail to

Re: Firewalls-Digest V8 #566

1999-08-24 Thread Will Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Goodridge) wrote: We have a growing number of Lotus Notes users who need remote access. Currently they are dialing into our old modem bank. [snip] Therefore we just need to open a port for Notes to the server. I could open the Notes port to the DMZ and move the Notes

Good e-commerce securing package ??

1999-08-24 Thread Siddiqi Farhan A
Hi, We are evaluating two products for securing e-commerce applications. These are "SiteMinder" by Netegrity, and "enCommerce getAccess". Has anybody any experiance with these products ?. Any gotchas or shortcommings. Thanx. Farhan - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Question about LOpht Security Advisory

1999-08-24 Thread James Strompolis
Duh. No need for anyone to answer. Got the answer.:) James Strompolis Aleph Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ribs.com - Original Message - From: James Strompolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:42 AM

Fw: VPN Best low cost solution?

1999-08-24 Thread Gary Maltzen
(Oops, forgot to include the list on first response) Which car is best for you depends on whether you telecommute, drive 10 miles to work each day or are a salesman covering a 5-state territory. How are you intending to use the VPN? site-to-site? roaming users? - Original Message -

Re: Question about LOpht Security Advisory

1999-08-24 Thread trall
No, another modem user of the same ISP, in fact one using the same upstream router, still could not redirect your traffic to his machine. The reason for this is that routing, even in a simple desktop, has the job only of choosing the next hop. It has no control over subsequent routes. With a

Re: VPN Best low cost solution?

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew G. Harrigan
I've been thinking about writing a cost vs. effectiveness paper on various VPN solutions, both hardware and software based for some time now. Please send me email (do not copy the list) if this would be of interest to you. To more directly answer your question, if you have a firewall in place

Re: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Chris Osicki
Why would you want connect all four to the same switch? The switches are nowdays not that expensive ;-) Am I missing something here? Unless you have a kind of a hybrid switch, it operates on MAC addresses and doesn't know anything about IP. The IP-packet sender sends an ARP to get the

Linux Router Project

1999-08-24 Thread Jorge_Miguel_Pinto
is anyone running a firewall based on LRP ? if so, have u done any benchmarks ? Regards J. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: VPN Best low cost solution?

1999-08-24 Thread Sweeney, Patrick
This is good info. The cost per end-user VPN client looks high to me. I know my Axent-Mobile clients run $60-$65. (Although not according to Axent site, but search most software vendors sites and you'll find these prices.) You may also be able to get bundles of clients with some vendors

Re: FW: DNS ..where to put..DMZ or ...

1999-08-24 Thread Dave Gillett
On 24 Aug 99, at 9:41, David Watson wrote: I'm new with Fire Wall security. My superior seems to know more about it. but after this message I have my doubts. Can anyone help? -Original Message- From: X Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 9:01 AM To: David Watson

Re: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Ron DuFresne
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/forum_message.html?forum=2head=32id=32 forum - Guest Feature: The Internet Auditing Project (p1 of 7) Thu Aug 19 1999 Cautionary Tales: Stealth Coordinated Attack HOWTO It's buried kinda deep in the article, under; E) Embedding, and

Re: Failover routing on Sun.

1999-08-24 Thread Rob . Evered
Martin, Failover routing seems to be an issue for allot of people. there is no good solution. Your idea of a script to ping the interface is a good one but in our experience its normally the application that fails not the whole box. I am sure that you could get it to work by pinging a device

Intro

1999-08-24 Thread Robert Dolliver
I would like to introduce myself to the list. I am a techical instructor for Nortel. My area of focus is VPN product solutions. IKE, IPSec etc. Our VPN solutions are now going to be porting FW-1 and I am looking to pick up a knowledge base specifiic to firewall secuirity and the FW product. I

incident recovery

1999-08-24 Thread Dominick Glavach
This is slightly off-topic so cross post if necessary. When performing an incident recovery for company XYZ, I found the following in root's crontab: * * * * * /usr/sbin/ns. This appears to be a backdoor of some sort. The reason I post this is to see if anyone has seen this type on binary

RE: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Ben Nagy
Buh? You're telling me that every NIC on every Sun box has the _same_ MAC address? Exactly how are "all switches" designed to "handle" that? Please tell me that I've drastically misinterpreted this. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304

New to List

1999-08-24 Thread Paul Kern
I would like to introduce myself to the list. I am Channel Manager for a wholesale distributor (for Australia and New Zealand) of Nokia Firewall VPN products integrating Firewall 1. From what I've seen already I stand to learn a lot from the postings on this list, and hopefully as my

Re: incident recovery

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew G. Harrigan
My guesses are: * Sniffer log daemon - there are many variants on this. The basic concept is that an attacker will install sniffers on multiple different machines, and as opposed to having them log locally, it sends the logs to a centralized host, where said attacker grabs them from at a later

RE: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Jean Chouanard
At 05:00 PM 8/24/99 , someone using Ben Nagy's login wrote: Buh? You're telling me that every NIC on every Sun box has the _same_ MAC address? Exactly how are "all switches" designed to "handle" that? A single MAC per *motherboard* yes, by default . All network card(s) plugged on the same Sun

RE: quad cards on firewalls

1999-08-24 Thread Marcus . Nand
This is true, but to get around switch problems, one should change the MAC address using one of the startup scripts. Marcus __ Reply Separator _ Subject: RE: quad cards on firewalls Author: bnagy ([EMAIL