Re: Router ACL's

1999-10-05 Thread Bill Fox
- Original Message - From: Kent Hundley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; firewalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:35 PM Subject: RE: Router ACL's Bill, Comments imbedded: snips Without more specific information, it's hard to give a complete answer.

RE: Router ACL's

1999-10-05 Thread Kent Hundley
Bill, Comments imbedded: I've run into some packet filtering problems that are making me "rethink" router ACL's. I'm hoping that someone can clarify a few areas that I formerly *thought* I understood... :) Does an ACL on a given port process packets in *both* directions, or only those

ARP

1999-10-05 Thread suchi
Hi Everyone, As i am new to the concept of NAT please could someone help me out. Please could someone tell me what is the function of ARP while doing NAT. I would also be very thankful if I was pointed to some good Docs on NAT and configuring the same on cisco routers. Thanking you in

TCP/IP stack replaced ?

1999-10-05 Thread Laurent Butti
Hello, I have a question : does firewalls replace (or configure) TCP/IP stacks, particularly in NT world ? If yes, which products ? What is changed in the configuration of the TCP/IP stack ? Thanxs for any help. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in

Re: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread W Joel Gridley
Yes, could someone please answer Mr. Diefenbach? He has asked this question before, and I was dissappointed to see that no one answered, as I am also having issues regarding this. At 10:11 AM 10/4/99 -0500, Les Diefenbach wrote: I'm running Gauntlet 5.0 on Solaris 2.6 and when I give the

RE: Private Wire Gateway

1999-10-05 Thread Myllymäki Sakari
No problem really. There is no need to have all the data being en/decrypted in the cryptodevice (smartcard, clipper chip or whatever) at the same time. The crypto algorithm on the device acts on either data blocks (eg 64-bits for DES) or bit stream. so you need only move data stream in and out of

Commercially Available Firewall Softwares

1999-10-05 Thread Sushant Lotlikar
Hi to all, Well I just wanted to know which is the best commercially available firewall software. Thanks, Sushant. PS- I hope this question does not offend anybody. __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -

RE: Private Wire Gateway

1999-10-05 Thread C.M. Wong
I know the below can be done. But how fast can a 500k e-mail be decrypted via smart card? Consumers have to be careful when they purchase stuff like this. Rgrds, Wong. -Original Message- From: Myllymäki Sakari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:57 PM To:

Re: Commercially Available Firewall Softwares

1999-10-05 Thread Paul D. Robertson
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sushant Lotlikar wrote: Hi to all, Well I just wanted to know which is the best commercially available firewall software. Which is the best vehicle? There is no "best" because it depends on a lot of factors, all of which are specific to your skillset, assets,

NAT

1999-10-05 Thread Jean Morissette
G'day all or night wherever you are, I have static NAT setup on my firewall. So my FW reg. IP address is mapped to my FW semi-secure private IP address to my DMZ. Should that be enough so that all request from the Internet is forwarded to the DMZ as long as the ports are opened. Thank you in

Re: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Christophe Touvet
If it's sendmail 8.8.8 (latest Sun patchs), you should add: O RunAsUser=uucp in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. HTH, -JCT- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 01:29:00 -0400 From: W Joel Gridley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Les Diefenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, could someone

Strange webserver connections

1999-10-05 Thread Bernhard Petri
Hello and Good Day, I sometimes see strange log entries in our firewall log. They always come from a webserver and use source port HTTP. Because they use a range of destination ports (services) it looks like a port scan. But I don't think it's an attack, because when I connect to one of the

RE: SSH VPN, Solaris - Solaris or Solaris - NT

1999-10-05 Thread Mullen, Patrick
I'm sorry, I guess I didn't explain the situation properly. I want to run a security auditor from a machine which just happens to be a Solaris box with a SoftPC card running NT inside it. The machine is in charge of the security of a large network with many layers of firewalls. The problem is

RE: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Fiamingo, Frank
Joel, This is caused by the Gauntlet is running sendmail as uucp while retaining the older sendmail.cf. When the Solaris sendmail patch 105395-06 is installed the newer /usr/lib/sendmail (version 8.8.8) complains about two things: 1. not having a fully qualified hostname - either

Re: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi, Why uucp user owns aliases file? Check permission and ownership. This is a quote from sendmail's README: +---+ | DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS | +---+ Sendmail often gets blamed for many problems that are actually the result of other problems, such as

Re[2]: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Chris L. Riney
Sendmail is complainging about the '/etc/mail/aliases' file because it is owned by UUCP not ROOT. Also, sendmail is SUID'd to UUCP, which is not normal. Sendmail considers any file writeable by anybody but root to be unsafe, unless built to not do the checking. There isn't any mention which

Re: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Chris Osicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Why uucp user owns aliases file? Gauntlet runs sendmail as user "uucp". Remember it uses sendmail as the backend mailer. it uses SMAP as the SMTP daemon which queues up the received mail which then gets delivered by sendmail in the background. Running

Re: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
This message is because the $j macro is not fully qualified. $j is set from the hostname of the machine. If this is a Solaris box just put the FQDN name of the machine in /etc/nodename. WARNING: local host name (hades) is not qualified; fix $j in config file These messages are due to the

RE: Commercially Available Firewall Softwares

1999-10-05 Thread Jean Morissette
Those are the kind of answers you will get because your question is too wide open. Try to add info. like The OS platform(s) you are running, and /or which the one you are more comfortable with. What are your goals, what kind of services you need to provide. Do you have lots of money to throw at

Firewalls FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

1999-10-05 Thread Mikael Olsson
Seeing that there has been more than just a handful of Frequently Asked Questions lately, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that there is a fairly extensive FAQ for this list. It is located at: http://lists.gnac.net/firewalls/ The firewalls FAQ contains FAQs and links on:

Re: Oracle firewalls...

1999-10-05 Thread Richard Reiner
I don't really understand why a classical firewall shouldn't suits for that sort of packets, i mean if they are tcp packets they'll be scanned like other (the headers in fact ...) whatever the datas they contains... I'm i wrong ?? Yes. Try the following experiment (if you have the right

RE: ARP

1999-10-05 Thread Bill Stackpole
A NAT address or series of addresses looks like an internal network to systems on the outside network. Say we have a pool of NAT address 1.1.1.1 thru 1.1.1.64 configured on the outside interface of the router. System on the outside that want to communicate with these addresses first requests a

Re: Router ACL's

1999-10-05 Thread Kent Hundley
Bill, Actually, by non-first fragments I mean all but the first IP fragment, not non-SYN packets. An IP fragment attack is very different than a SYN attack, and potentially more dangerous. In most situations, only the first IP fragment contains the upper layer port information, so all

RE: Alias0 unsafe map file

1999-10-05 Thread W Joel Gridley
Thanks to all for the input. There were some very well worded responses, that were easy to understand and follow. Les, you got any further questions? I'm pretty well sated on this topic now, and pretty sure it won't be a problem for me in the future thanks to the response. Is there an archive