RE: Recommended blocking for Internet-router

2000-12-22 Thread Jesper Wall
Very nice info about building bastion routers. (ex. peremiter routers) http://www.attrition.org/~modify/texts/phrack/Phrack55/P55-10 Cheers! /Jesper - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

Re: Firewall comparison

2000-12-22 Thread Frederick M Avolio
Rik Farrow maintains such information for comparison shopping at http://www.gocsi.com/firewall.htm. Start with hardening the e-commerce servers, though, please (even if they are protected by a firewall). And consider getting outside help (unless you are being very modest as to why you were

RE: NT password encryption name service

2000-12-22 Thread Graham, Randy \(RAW\)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The reason you get more possible passwords than Chris is because you assume an 8 character password is ((26 + 26 + 10 + 12)^7) * (26 + 26 + 10 + 12) passwords, when because of Microsoft splitting each password into 7 character parts (which can be

RE: NT password encryption name service

2000-12-22 Thread \D. Clyde Williamson\ D Clyde Williamson
No this is correct. The entire problem with NT's broken scheme hinges on this. Longer passwords don't make safer passwords. Yech! Graham, Randy \(RAW\) writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The reason you get more possible passwords than Chris is because you assume

RE: NT password encryption name service

2000-12-22 Thread Patrick Prue
The main issue here lies within the backwards compatibility of LAN Manager Support which breaks the passwords down into 7 character chunks that are all non case sensitive. You can increase the time that l0pht would take dramatically simply by editing the registry to do only NTLM v 2 with no fall

RE: NT password encryption name service

2000-12-22 Thread \D. Clyde Williamson\ D Clyde Williamson
This is correct... Since I treat Redmond software as if it were covered with smallpox these days, I didn't even think to mention it. Their salt scheme is a problem, their LanMan stupidity is a problem, and the fact that they did not create any patches to bring Win9x up to NTLM v.2 is a very

RE: Log entry: WINS.EXE - external machine

2000-12-22 Thread Geoff Bonallack
Thanks guys. I'll twiddle with the registry settings and see if I can squash it. And yes, I'm embarrassed that I messed up the search - it seemed folly searching for an IP address, but I guess not :) Cheers Geoff -Original Message- From: Buddy Venne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: GUI Based Network Statistics

2000-12-22 Thread Steve Wolfe
You did not really tell us what was insuffent about the traffic programs mentioned earlier - mrtg , iptraf, ipfm, etheral. These kind of tools - especially mrtg - go out to an snmp enabled device and ask it its stats. If you want to see this snmp stuff more directly - pull down the ucd snmp

Nokia Firewall Checkpoint Firewall Interoperability

2000-12-22 Thread babuvs
Hi, I want to monitor and manage a Nokia firewall box using checkpoint enterprise management console. Is it possible. Second issue is can we establish VPN tunnel with checkpoint firewall configured for redundanncy (That is two firewalls configured at both the ends). If one firewall in

Re: Firewalls-Digest V8 #1396

2000-12-22 Thread Trevor Tsang
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Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Nancy Davis
Is it typical for ftp server's returning packets using random high ports? Yes. Is it "safe/secure" to setup such rule on checkpoint firewall? No.[1] Any implications that we need to be aware of? Have you thought about sftp? Or Z-modem via SecureCRT? Nancy Davis [1] That's not

Re: Firewall comparison

2000-12-22 Thread Roger Marquis
At 03:03 PM 12/22/00 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: Is there a resource e.g. website that keeps an up-to-date firewall comparison? There's a comparison of the 2 most popular commercial firewalls at: http://www.roble.com/docs/fw1_or_pix.html -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting

Re: Nokia Firewall Checkpoint Firewall Interoperability

2000-12-22 Thread opie san
Hello Babu, Hi, I want to monitor and manage a Nokia firewall box using checkpoint enterprise management console. Is it possible. The answer is yes. Since CheckPoint FW-1 is the only firewall softare that runs on the Nokia platform, it can be managed like any other Checkpoint box. The

RE: Firewall comparison

2000-12-22 Thread Scott Clayton
There are admittedly outdated resources here, http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/0719rev.html, but the scope of comparative analysis and reviews in one place surpasses any other I have identified to date. This may facilitate further investigation. - sc Scott Clayton Platform Engineering Manager

ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Ivan Fox
Some of our users need to access an external ftp server. Therefore, we setup a rule to use port 20 and 21. However, the ftp server responds their request using random high ports, therefore, we need to setup a "returning rule" allowing the ftp server coming back using high-ports (1023). Is it

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Lance Ecklesdafer
Ivan, Check the Properties settings under the Policy Menu in the Checkpoint Firewall-1 GUI. Go to the "Services" tab and select the "Enable FTP Port Data Connections" and "Enable FTP PASV Data Connections". Your rulebase would contain a rule that would appear like : Source = clients allowed to

RE: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread william.wells
If anyone provides you with a "safe/secure" setup which Checkpoint will allow you to have and still be approved by them, I'd sure like to know what it is. -Original Message- From: Ivan Fox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:45 PM To: Firewall-Wizards@Nfr.

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:12:34PM -0600, william.wells wrote: If anyone provides you with a "safe/secure" setup which Checkpoint will allow you to have and still be approved by them, I'd sure like to know what it is. I must be missing something in this thread. Isn't this what

Re: [FW1] ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Ivan Fox
I have checked the properties. It's been enabled. The problem is still here :-( - Original Message - From: "Ms. Geekgirl" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:48 PM Subject: RE: [FW1] ftp

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Ivan Fox
Lance; Thank you for your input. We have already done what you have advised. In fact, we have "complained" to Microsoft premium support. It knows exactly what is the problem and directs us to talk to Check Point. We logged a technical support call to Check Point. We have gone through 4

RE: VPN between PIX and CheckPoint 4.1

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Tobkin
Took a little while to figure out all the details, but here's a how-to on our website: http://www.intersec.com/support/checkpt/40.htm#e_q3 This is assuming FW-1 4.1 (sp2) and PIX 515 v 5.3beta and v5.1.2. // Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jean-Mathieu Baudry

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Lance Ecklesdafer
Ivan, Have you tried either of these fixes: 1. Stop FireWall-1 (fwstop) 2. Edit the /$FWDIR/lib/base.def 3. Mark out the following line: #define FTP_ENFORCE_NL to: //#define FTP_ENFORCE_NL 4. Start FireWall-1 (fwstart) 5. Re-install the policy Or this one: 1. Stop the FireWall (fwstop) 2.

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
Ivan - This sounds less like an issue with the type of FTP server, and more of a timeout issue. If it works for other directories between this same client and server, then it wouldn't be an issue of port numbers (I don't know of any FTP servers that use varying port numbers based on quantity of

Re: ftp server using random high ports and checkpoint

2000-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 04:37:06PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: I must be missing something in this thread. Isn't this what stateful inspection is for? When you see a PORT command on an FTP control channel connection issued to a particular address and specifying a particular

similiar tools

2000-12-22 Thread Ron DuFresne
Folks, SUN users have a sweet tool at hand with the http://www.securityfocus.com/sun/vulncalc site. Do other such tools exist for the various other unices out there, AIX, digital, SCO, HP? Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith