encryption isn't security [Was: Configuration Arguments... In House...]

2001-02-05 Thread mouss
SSl, and encrypition in general, are only tools to help in providing adequate security. In itself, encryption provides no security at all. in the discussed example, the server is public and must thus be accessible to anyone. This means that it should accept requests from any client, with or

Re: FreeBSD_4.x and nic0:1 like Solaris issues

2001-02-05 Thread mouss
At 21:51 03/02/01 -0800, Everett F Batey wrote: In an effort to pick the right way to get there and prefering FreeBSD hoped to have more than one subnet on the inside nic0 (eth0, ed0, ...) and hoped to be able to plumb it like nic0:1 like I do on Soularis. I suppose BSD ifconfig wont let me do

Re: Configuration Arguments... In House...

2001-02-05 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Ben Nagy wrote: SSL traffic can be sniffed. The sniffer just gets encrypted traffic. The sniffer can then decide to cryptanalyse or brute-force the packets (cryptanalysis better because of known/guessable header contents in starting packets) plaintext and you can't guess the

Re:

2001-02-05 Thread Jeffery . Gieser
#We will have remote users connecting via frame relay to a peering point outside our #firewall. They want to authenticate onto our domain to use network resources and MS #Exchange mail. From the start, Netbios would have to be allowed through the firewall. Is #this an issue since this is

Re: Configuration Arguments... In House...

2001-02-05 Thread David Lang
you are mixing up the session key length which is 40 or 128 bits with the RSA key length which is normally 1024 bits the only reason anyone still uses a browser with 40 bit encryption is that they are to lazy to get one with full encryption (or they live in iraq basicly). due to the export

Re: Configuration Arguments... In House...

2001-02-05 Thread Otto Goencz
Most of the MS OS's come with 40-bit browser by default, including W2K. It isn't as much laziness as you seem to think. The end users knowledge base has more to do with it IMHO. We needed to change our 128-bit SSL certificate to allow 40 and 56-bit clients to access our web site, most of the

Radware Fireproof vs. Foundry ServerIron

2001-02-05 Thread James Paterson
Does anyone have any opinions on which of these options is the best for an appliance based HA firewall solution? Or if there is a better option? The cluster would include 2 gauntlet 300 series E-pliances. We are looking at a hardware based solution as neither StoneBeat nor the integrated Legato

Firewall Load-balancing/Redundancy

2001-02-05 Thread Wimmer, Neil T.
I was wondering what other people's experience has been with Rainfinity's Rainwall product. We chose it at the time because it could handle more then two interfaces on a firewall. We tried implementing version 1.5 and seem to be having problems making it work with NAT. They have acknowledged a

RE: Radware Fireproof vs. Foundry ServerIron

2001-02-05 Thread rreiner
Strongly recommend you look into the BIG/IP units from F5. They are amazingly fast and featureful (far more flexible than anything built on a switch platform), rock solid, and work particularly well with Gauntlet/WebShield. We have a few sets deployed in a very large-scale environment

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2001-02-05 Thread Ron DuFresne
and of course, the frame relay pipe is bestest if it's encrypted to your point of termination. Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #We will have remote users connecting via frame relay to a peering point outside our #firewall. They want to authenticate onto

Re: Configuration Arguments... In House...

2001-02-05 Thread Otto Goencz
- Original Message - From: "Michael T. Babcock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Otto Goencz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Brian Steele" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 8:29 AM Subject: Re: Configuration Arguments... In House... Fallacy of

Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Scott Langendorf
I'm spec-ing a firewall for use in remote locations with administration via the internet. A friend told me that back in '97 when he worked on the PIX, there was no way to administer it unless you were on the inside interface. Is this configurable, or has this changed? I want to be able to set

Re: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Network Operations
Yes it has FINALLY changed. As of version 5.3x (I believe) you can administer remotely. The preferred method is, of course via SSH or a VPN connection. cheers.. Marc... Scott Langendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/01 09:33AM I'm spec-ing a firewall for use in remote locations with

Re: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Don Hickey
From what I understand, the newer versions of the Pix Software will allow you to telnet to the outside interface if you are using IPSec. This was from the 5.0 manual Don Hickey - Original Message - From: "Scott Langendorf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February

Re: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread H. Morrow Long
You can also use SSH (v1) from an outside interface to connect directly to the Cisco PIX in later releases of 5 (e.g. 5.2(3)) if you configure it. - H. Morrow Long Don Hickey wrote: From what I understand, the newer versions of the Pix Software will allow you to telnet to the outside

Web site connected from two different ISP's

2001-02-05 Thread Jaime Martins
Hi to all, Do you know how can I use two ISP to connect to the same Web site? I have clients in both of them and can not downgrade performance. I don't want to use diferent site names to each cIients. Thanks. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in

RE: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Rod Cappon
Just to let you know I was just setting this up when you asked and I do have it working from the outside using IPSEC. So it is a definite yes to remote management. -Original Message- From: Don Hickey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Jim Gibson
One drawback is that if you are running in a fail over configuration with two PIXen, you cannot use SSH due to encryption synchronization. At least according to the documentation. Jim Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] S4R -- The Calm behind .com www.s4r.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Web site connected from two different ISP's

2001-02-05 Thread Rod Cappon
The only way I can think of is if both ISP are willing to "publish" your IP address range to their clients and possibly the internet. You would need a set of IP address assigned to you that your ISP route to the internet. Or you convince your "new ISP" to allow your "OLD ISP" to publish to the

RE: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Brian Ford
You can however run SSH to the router in front of, behind or next to the PIX and connect to the primary via the inside interface. The routers IOS as well as the PIX all can terminate SSH connections. Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:38:14 -0800 From: "Jim Gibson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Question About Pix Firewall remote Administration

2001-02-05 Thread Victor Pereira
You can run SSH on a Linux box and connect this box to the Pix via Serial.Then you do a ssh to the linux box and open a serial connection (minicom) to the Pix "I Was Born To Frag"(vpereira) zyon:/work#cd /pubzyon:/pub#more beerzyon:/pub#cd ~zyon:~#sleep 18h

RE: Web site connected from two different ISP's

2001-02-05 Thread Shimon Silberschlag
Check out Radware Linkproof. It will help you do this without using BGP or obtaining an AS. http://www.radware.com/content/products/link.htm Regards, Shimon Silberschlag Wydeband Ltd. Phone: +972 3 7668858 Fax: +972 3 7668980 Mobile: +972 51 207130 -Original Message- From: Rod

RE: Firewall Load-balancing/Redundancy

2001-02-05 Thread Jeff Deitz
Title: RE: Firewall Load-balancing/Redundancy You might want to also look at the Radware Fireproof solution. It was one of the first to be Checkpoint OPSEC certified I believe. The problem is that it is located on the high availability hot standby section and not the load balance like it

Boundary switch ??

2001-02-05 Thread Dickens, Jon \(MOL\)
Wondering if anyone has heard of any company moving from having a router as their boundary device connecting to the internet to a a switch with a routing module. Aware that you could possibly face loss of more internal functionality from a DOS attack due to losing the switching capability but

Re: Question about PIX firewall remote administration

2001-02-05 Thread Michael Batchelder
Supposedly, this was fixed in 5.3(1), but the one test I've done didn't work. Anyone test SSH failover in this rev of PIX o/s? Get it to work? Michael Jim Gibson wrote: One drawback is that if you are running in a fail over configuration with two PIXen, you cannot use SSH due to

RE: Firewall Load-balancing/Redundancy

2001-02-05 Thread Lynchehaun, Patrick
You also may want to take a look at Fore/Marconi ESX/NSX FSA (firewall switching agent) which does load balancing over three FW's (Checkpoint or Gauntlet) all IP traffic.Can be used with gig and offers fastpath with TCP traffic. - From: Jeff Deitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05

binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Salman Ghani
Hi there, Can two IP's be bind to a single nic in win2k. A friend of mine is telling me its possible. I don't think any OS will allow that, but then again I work on UNIX which sticks an IP to a single nic and have no exposure of win2k. Salman

Re: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Jose Nazario
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Salman Ghani wrote: Can two IP's be bind to a single nic in win2k. A friend of mine is telling me its possible. I don't think any OS will allow that, but then again I work on UNIX which sticks an IP to a single nic and have no exposure of win2k. i've done it in advanced

Re: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Toby Rider
Salman Ghani wrote: Hi there, Can two IP's be bind to a single nic in win2k. A friend of mine is telling me its possible. I don't think any OS will allow that, but then again I work on UNIX which sticks an IP to a single nic and have no exposure of win2k. Salman What?? Of

Re: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread The Pal / Patrik Bodin
On 2001-02-05 22:12, Salman Ghani wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about...: SG Hi there, SG SG Can two IP's be bind to a single nic in win2k. A friend of mine is telling SG me its possible. I don't think any OS will allow that, but then again I work SG on UNIX which sticks an IP to a single nic

RE: Boundary switch ??

2001-02-05 Thread Ben Nagy
G'day, One problem that springs immediately to mind is that there is probably a PHY problem - unless your switch supports ADSL / ISDN / X.21 serial or whatever. Another is that it would be very difficult to move to a firewall / DMZ environment in the future (without using VLANS or something -

RE: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Azher Amin Mughal
Hi You can assign multiple IPs in WinNT/Win2k or even in Unic very easily. WinNT= Go to ptotocols-tcp/ip-ip-advanced and here add as many ips u like. in linux: ifconfig $internface:0 192.168.2.1 where $interface is the name of ethernet or any e.g. eth0 Azher -Original Message- From:

RE: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Sparks, Darrin
Every Unix I've seen can do it too (plus NT and W2K). It's mainly used for hardware virtual hosting (virtual hosting via IP instead of hostname where one server needs to represent several sites) or in particular combinations of High Availablilty solutions. -Original Message- From:

Re: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Toby Rider
Salman Ghani wrote: How about AIX?? I have one AIX box on my entire network, and it's mission-critical function is to rack up seti points for me. :-) I guess I could SSH over there, read the man page for AIX'es ifconfig, then ifconfig up a virtual address for it, but then it

RE: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread The Pal / Patrik Bodin
On 2001-02-06 03:25, Azher Amin Mughal wrote to Salman Ghani about RE:...: AAM Hi AAM AAM You can assign multiple IPs in WinNT/Win2k or even in Unic very easily. AAM AAM WinNT= Go to ptotocols-tcp/ip-ip-advanced and here add as many ips u AAM like. AAM AAM in linux: ifconfig $internface:0

Re: binding two IP's wilth a single nic???

2001-02-05 Thread Gene Lee
ifconfig tr0 192.168.0.1 ifconfig tr0 192.168.0.2 alias Sorry for the token ring example. I forgot what the ethernet interface name was (it's been so long - en0?) and tr is appropriate given the platform! :-) -- Gene Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From:

Re: Configuration Arguments... In House...

2001-02-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:21:15AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote: I should have been more specific. I assumed they would attack your public key -- and that was my issue ... 40 bit keys (most commonly used still) and eventually 128 bit keys should not be considered 'sufficient' to defeat an

pix block Yahoo

2001-02-05 Thread Abdul kader Bhanpurawala
Hi ! Can anybody help me to Bock the Yahoo Messenger and to allow ftp through PIX firewall... (Internet) | Cisco1601 | PIX (4.0) |(3660-Cisco) |(CorporateWebServer) Thanks in advance .. yusuf H B Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - [To unsubscribe, send

pix firewall

2001-02-05 Thread Abdul kader Bhanpurawala
Hi ! Can anybody help me to Bock the Yahoo Messenger and to allow ftp through PIX firewall... (Internet) | Cisco1601 | PIX (4.0) |(3660-Cisco) |(CorporateWebServer) Thanks in advance .. yusuf H B Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - [To unsubscribe, send

DSL and Securemote

2001-02-05 Thread ragu nandan
Hello We are running Checkpoint 4.1 FW1 (SP2) with both IKE and FWZ configured. UDP encapsulation has also been implemented on the server. We have a growing number of users (Engineeres) who wish to use DSL at home with Checkpoint Securemote client. I know there are some issues with