RE: Literature

1999-04-05 Thread Ben Nagy
ore info from mailing lists and security / 'l33t h4X0R d00dZ websites than textbooks, but when you need a number or a bit offset it is a pain to go hunting through the web. Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520

RE: Throughput

1999-04-06 Thread Ben Nagy
and purposes. I don't know if you're doing context based stuff with your existing router though - I don't think the 5500 supports IOS / Firewall feature set. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 -Original Message

RE: Netbios

1999-04-09 Thread Ben Nagy
in between. I'm not sure it's how _I'd_ do it, but I can't see how it's as drastic as having people able to connect to NB ports on your local network. So anyway, what did I miss, Chris? -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520

RE: DNS in the DMZ

1999-04-11 Thread Ben Nagy
rse lookup will take every IP address, and think "Hmm...I might just check this" and find the in-arpa PTR record for that IP address. In this case, lo and behold it turns out to be hax0r.sinville.edu. As Chris said, there may be other issues depending on what your front line firewall set

RE: Cisco IOS

1999-04-21 Thread Ben Nagy
do the job for about a tenth of the price of a "real" firewall box, and you'll probably still need an access router to boot. (like a shadow, Argument Man slips back into the night!) -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520

RE: MAC Base filtering

1999-04-22 Thread Ben Nagy
or by port-and-MAC VLAN. If that's STILL not enough I'd sack 'em. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 -Original Message- From: Enrique Fernández [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday

RE: vlans and FW-1

1999-04-22 Thread Ben Nagy
use another way of resolving hostnames? LMHOSTS? Normal (?!) MS browsing without a WINS server? DNS? Maybe you could doctor the WINS database manually, if you _must_ use WINS, and just remove WINS from the dual homed servers' interfaces. Gotta fly.. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group

RE: NT authentication

1999-04-23 Thread Ben Nagy
or the model of their car. In summary: The ways in which NT auth sucks shouldn't bother you here, IMO. The issue is that (I think) you should aim to have an extra layer of protection for your dialin resources, because they bypass the firewall. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group

RE: Cache server between FW-1 and LAN

1999-05-03 Thread Ben Nagy
three where you "handoff" the request to the proxy server _inside_ the network (if you didn't have a DMZ for example), but you'd need to do horrible things with proxy permissions and packet filtering which I won't go into lest I spend the afterlife in TCP/IP Hell.[1] Cheers, [1] W

RE: Microsoft DNS

1999-05-06 Thread Ben Nagy
lippant. I can think of some cases where it would be cool to proxy UDP to a Unix box running BIND or something. However, the ONLY reason to write such a proxy would be because there was no native DNS server that runs on the firewall that was any good, and that might be politically difficult to say

RE: [Q] Firewalls and LAN dialup access

1999-05-09 Thread Ben Nagy
services), all the companies...you get the idea. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 5:08 PM

RE: intrusion via IP options and spoofing

1999-05-10 Thread Ben Nagy
really really decide that you are under attack, the rules are 1. Stay Calm 2. Write Stuff Down. Cheers, [1] And I'd love to know where this comes from - anyone know if IIS tries some weird netbios lookup on clients? -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 84

RE: Securing analog phone lines (!)

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Nagy
do this off a server If that fails, most of the remote control software will work via TCP/IP as well as directly connected modem. I'd get them to dial into a remote access server (Cisco, Shiva, Linux box, NT box etc) and use their client that way - then at least I could apply _some_ control. IGood L

RE: Securing analog phone lines (!)

1999-05-14 Thread Ben Nagy
because the secret segment is never transmitted...right? Even Diffie-Helman or something should be proof against a middleman... Is there a cryptographer in the house? 8) -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 Well

RE: Firewall stalls

1999-05-19 Thread Ben Nagy
What's "non-igmp traffic"? Got a packet dump of one of these FW-Killer packets? I had a Gauntlet 2.1FW that used to hang for no reason for a while under suspicious circumstances, but I took the easy option of upgrading it...I'd be interested to know what the problem is... -- Ben Na

RE: Reverse proxy

1999-05-19 Thread Ben Nagy
th another TCP based service) then IMO a reverse proxy is a pretty reasonable way to do things. Couldn't find the thread you referenced, BTW. Mebbe you could fwd it to me offline? Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (041

RE: which ports to allow PDC login ?

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Nagy
be you can use a VPN type connection? Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 -Original Message- From: Tally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Forcing route through non-default path

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Nagy
ce address at the _Ethernet_ level will always be that NIC on the firewall, but I don't think you can change that unless you have two NICs that front onto the same network segment (bizarre). Is this what you were talking about? -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8

RE: Free Tools for detecting sniffers

1999-05-26 Thread Ben Nagy
Wow. What characteristic of the NIC allows you to detect this? I would have thought that it would be purely internal to the system running the NIC...Is there some weird Ethernet broadcast that the NIC sends when it's entering promiscuous mode? -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group

RE: DCOM on Gauntlet

1999-05-31 Thread Ben Nagy
rewall is IMHO a big NO-NO. Between business partners or in a VPN it's another question. Never in question. 8) Rudi -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Broken Mailer (not mine)

1999-06-01 Thread Ben Nagy
Despite my two messages to the postmaster at gtsgroup, this bizarre behaviour continues. I apologise for the messages, even though (despite the spoofed From: ) they _don't_ come from or indeed _have anything to do with_ me. Grr. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct

RE: Actually RE: Firewall Philosophy (was Re: DCOM on Gauntlet)

1999-05-31 Thread Ben Nagy
Comments (formatted badly) inline 8b -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct Dial: (08) 8422 8319 Mobile: (0414) 411 520 -Original Message- From: Paul D. Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 9:53 PM To: Ben Nagy Cc: [EMAIL

RE: MS Proxy Server

1999-06-02 Thread Ben Nagy
he machine to fulfill your stated aim is enough to make this solution fundamentally insecure. Now I'm sure you can secure IIS somehow, but the default setups suck very badly so you probably REALLY need to know what you're doing. G'luck! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct:

RE: Gauntlet5/NT4 strange behaviour -- please take a look

1999-06-27 Thread Ben Nagy
ader Stuff, YMMV. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct: +61 8 8422 8319 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Dimitris Kontoudis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Why not watchguard 2 ? (read on)

1999-06-30 Thread Ben Nagy
etwork then a Trojan or and internal attacker with some smarts can do pretty much anything they want. Then again I've never thought about writing an HTTP proxy and I don't know the spec too well, so I could be mistaken. In fact, _please_ tell me I'm mistaken. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPM

RE: Secure PCAnywhere

1999-07-21 Thread Ben Nagy
Anywhere essentially compromises the entire system (by design). Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct: +61 8 8422 8319Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999

RE: Layered Firewalls

1999-07-21 Thread Ben Nagy
is not only to give yourself more cover, but also to avoid a situation where multiple firewalls might be vulnerable to a shared vulnerability (five BSD firewalls are no good if the same TCP/IP stack implementation bug works on all of them). -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies

RE: IPSEC + IPNAT possibilities ?

1999-08-02 Thread Ben Nagy
work fine. Cheers, [1] Yeah, well this is a simplified explanation, okay? There are some minor brain benders in setting up edge routers to do IPSec tunnels in NAT environments, but nothing too hard. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct: +61 8 8422 8319Mobile: +61 414

RE: IPSEC + IPNAT possibilities ?

1999-08-03 Thread Ben Nagy
about a simple network to network implementation. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct: +61 8 8422 8319Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: TC Wolsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL

FW: NT Security

1999-08-08 Thread Ben Nagy
FYI -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies Direct: +61 8 8422 8319Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Espinola, Micheal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 4:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: NT Security Hello, I

Snipping TX wires

1999-08-16 Thread Ben Nagy
problem... Is there a trick? -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Craig I. Hagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 5:57 AM To: Burgess, Jeff Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

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

RE: Network browsing through a VPN

1999-08-25 Thread Ben Nagy
that all client machines have an entry for the WINS server on the remote network. You may be able to hand this information out in the DHCP lease when the incoming VPN connection is terminated. Last resort - use an LMHOSTS file on each client. That should work. Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant

RE: ICMP filtering

1999-08-31 Thread Ben Nagy
s damn MTU discovery thing. I don't let 'em in, and I've never seen problems - I've seen lots of posts from people warning of the dangers, and a few from people who claim that, in the real world, they've never had problems...Could someone give me a moron's version of The Wonderful World of Fragmentatio

FW: Default configuration in WatchGuard Firewall

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Nagy
or that the poster is Just Making It Up? Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Alfonso Lazaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: In line firewalls...[long and pointless]

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Nagy
l of trust in the Internal LAN were not great, or the information / resources used in the LAN DMZ were that critical, then I guess this architecture could be useful. [Explanatory ASCII Art] LAN Router1 DMZ for LAN users FW1 No man's land FW2 DMZ for Internet users Router2 Cheers, -- Ben Nagy

RE: Does SSL use RSA keys? [LP]

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Nagy
;trillion-trillion years" (in relation to crypto) again. ;) -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL P

RE: NT Firewalls and Microsoft/NSA back door

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Nagy
Am I the only one that doesn't know what this is about? Reference? (feeling lazy for not doing own research) -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Ng, Kenneth (US) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Looking for TCP based VPN

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Nagy
. Just make sure that no NAT happens to IPSec'ed data. Hope this helps ;) -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Frank Knobbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:50 PM

RE: SSL use RSA keys? Follow up question...

1999-09-07 Thread Ben Nagy
port laws for encryption suck. Thankyou for your time. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 7:12 AM To: [EMA

RE: Security policy design issues (long)

1999-09-14 Thread Ben Nagy
-Original Message- From: Fabio Rocha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 1999 10:52 PM To: Ben Nagy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Security policy design issues (long) DISCLAIMER: I am not a WWW / CGI expert. I actually know squat about

RE: Commercial Firewall or not

1999-09-14 Thread Ben Nagy
n are just passed through (basically) an SPF. Very fast. As I understand it, 'normal' Stateful Packet Filters don't neccessarily do this unless they need to in terms of opening and closing ports. Then again I could be wrong. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304

No Subject

1999-09-20 Thread Ben Nagy
strong authentication (like digital certs or something) because then all that's protecting your client entered data is the stupid 40-bit key and once someone cracks one session they can impersonate you forever. So, I would say yes. I think it is bad practice. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant

Which process owns which port (NT)

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Nagy
process is actually doing the listening. No points will be awarded for lists of well-known ports, references to the 'netstat' command or suggestions involving "using a real operating system". Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +

RE: Hardware vs Software - Reprise

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Nagy
. But if the balance still works out in favour of the *nix solution, I would suggest that you go with one Linux box and one openBSD box or some similar mis-match of OSs between the two. You don't want one bug to cut a hole through _both_ your firewalls. Have fun, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS

RE: ARP

1999-10-08 Thread Ben Nagy
ne 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 co nfiguring the same on cisco routers. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A8

RE: secure access to video stream

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Nagy
r feasible as paranoid security freaks like us make out. Unless it's ultra-sensitive, I'd not worry about it (but use strong crypto anyway - never hurts to be sure ;). -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe,

RE: InfoSec Consultant Liability Question

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Nagy
ON Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Jean Morissette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 16 October 1999 11:43 PM To: Frank Pawlak; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: InfoSec

RE: MS PPTP and PIX

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Nagy
matically. If you've gotten it not to, then tell me how! One more question - If I setup netbios on the VPN client (and PPTP/RAS server), users can connect and authenticate and do whatever they can/allowed. if you have a situation that works, what's the problem? Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Co

RE: Firewalls-Digest V8 #647

1999-10-19 Thread Ben Nagy
attain a fairly good level of security with NAT and packet filters on the router (I sound like a broken record, right?). Remember, the router _is_ a firewall - it provides directionally differentiated access to network resources. (Back to the amazon.com "crypto" challenge...) -- Ben Na

FTP Proxy Out To Lunch (Gauntlet5.0/NTSP5)

1999-10-20 Thread Ben Nagy
is turned on, that the firewall is plugged into the LAN and the power and I have also sacrificed some small rodentia in the name of Shub-Internet. Thanks... [1] Retry, Restart, Reinstall -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubsc

RE: Once again...please! (more OT SSL guff)

1999-10-20 Thread Ben Nagy
lp, Michael Sorbera Webmaster of a Federal Credit Union "In the land of the clueless, he who has half a clue is King!" I don't want to be mean, but READ THE SPEC! It's not even that hard to understand! Email me OOB and I'll give you a shipping address for my editing cheque. ;) Chee

RE: VLAN - a semi-firewall related question

1999-10-21 Thread Ben Nagy
that _your_ data going to contractor A isn't readable by contractor B, which is possibly more important. This is even more compelling if the people have anything like physical access to any of the wire (you mentioned that there was a concern RE: access to the switch console port). Cheers, -- Ben Nagy

RE: NAT issues

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Nagy
should be asking the vendor of the box that will be doing NAT - they should have a list. eg: Cisco's list is here: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/60.html#HDT3 Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe

RE: arp problems

1999-10-31 Thread Ben Nagy
(added arp manual arp cache entries to the upstream router). And here was me thinking I was just a lazy kludge artist. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Lazy Kludge Artist, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

RE: Input on NAI's Gauntlet Firewall/VPN...

1999-11-03 Thread Ben Nagy
ttp://www.nai.com/media/pdf/products/tns/Pgpvpn_b.pdf -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: Enterprise Level Firewalls?

1999-11-07 Thread Ben Nagy
vendor...I think you may need to re-examine some of your assumptions. I'm not saying you're wrong (except about the SPF vs Application Gateway thing), but I think that even if you're right you're quite possibly ignoring any better solutions that may be out there. Nathan A. Long Cheers,

RE: Three NIC Firewall

1999-11-15 Thread Ben Nagy
vices - Asia Pacific Engineering Opinions expressed herein are mine, not my employer's Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

RE: Three NIC Firewall

1999-11-15 Thread Ben Nagy
the connection to the internal DB through the magic proxy and everything would be reasonably clean. If you MUST do it this way, I'd try really hard to get a good, strong WWW server and platform and a DB that you trust to cope with deliberately tainted input. Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant

RE: VPN via 2501 - Firewall-1 - NT

1999-11-21 Thread Ben Nagy
these lines on the FW-1 box - I dunno, I'm not a FW1 guy. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Blanco, Juan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 21 November 1999 12:10 AM To: '[EMAIL

RE: Parallel pathways

1999-11-28 Thread Ben Nagy
sequence and because the "something you know" bit (the PIN or the passphrase) is longer and more memorable. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: Strange Occurance of ICMP's

1999-11-29 Thread Ben Nagy
if they contain any commands or suspicious looking data - there could be a Bad Thing out there that uses a trojan which listens for ICMP errors as the activation signal. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe

RE: NT Drivesharing and firewalls.

1999-12-22 Thread Ben Nagy
rough to the trusted side of the firewall. If it's a remote host or if it's more than one machine, use VPN stuff. This is functionally equivalent to pulling it through to the trusted side, as above. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mob

RE: Cisco ACL command

2000-01-04 Thread Ben Nagy
to be more specific than and on a different interface than the route to 90.0.0.x/24. Any help will be deeply appreciated !!! ** * Ing. Gerardo Soto Casados Compu-Redes Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS

RE: Cisco ACL command

2000-01-05 Thread Ben Nagy
, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the deranged reader with too much time to hand-figure binary. So, for example, 90.0.0.0 through to 90.0.0.31 _can_ be collected in one statement. -Original Message- From: Ben Nagy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2000 2:46 PM

RE: SSH and Telnet

2000-01-26 Thread Ben Nagy
you should. Assuming by "initial message" you mean getting your connection rejected by the SSH daemon. Cheers! Jon G'luck! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Secure Remote client behind FW1-A connects to foreign FW1-B.

2000-01-30 Thread Ben Nagy
point Thing", then ignore this completely. Anyway, HTH - any FW-1 guys out there wanna chip in? Huh? ;) Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: Cisco Access Lists [longish]

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Nagy
tuff with this technique alone. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, CPMS Group of Companies PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: Port 113

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Nagy
ity angle. If you're using NAT then you can be more elegant by having a NAT mapping for port 113 on all mailserver IP addresses that points to a "safe" host (I tend to use the router itself) whose TCP stack you trust to send back a TCP RST in the face of adversity and nasty packets.

RE: SUMMARY: Cisco Access Lists

2000-03-15 Thread Ben Nagy
it if the router is your only line of defence but not if it's just a first level screen for another firewall (or two). Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Jon Earle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: IPSec and NAT

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Nagy
://www.opus1.com/jmsOpus One - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

RE: Citrix

2000-04-03 Thread Ben Nagy
Just a quick one: There's a recent bugtraq post about ICA auth being weak (using the cunning XOR cipher). That would mean that you have effectively no security for the usernames / passwords you use to authenticate to the Citrix server. You may want to check that out. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy

RE: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy

2000-04-13 Thread Ben Nagy
00 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy [ snip ] 1. When reading abount packet filtering and proxies, everybody says that a proxy gives more security than (stateful) packet filtering. Can you explain why? Cheers, -- Ben Nagy N

RE: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy

2000-04-13 Thread Ben Nagy
-Original Message- From: Jon Earle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 13 April 2000 11:18 PM To: Ben Nagy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy At 05:44 PM 4/13/00 +0930, you wrote: Strictly speaking, a stateful packet filter only keeps

RE: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy

2000-04-13 Thread Ben Nagy
Pardon my curmudgeonliness. I'm getting over the flu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 14 April 2000 2:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Packet Filtering vs. Proxy Ben Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So

RE: Crypto - mail attachments, docs

2000-04-18 Thread Ben Nagy
Ltd. fax: +44 (0)121 606 0477 Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

CCEVS (WAS RE: Proxy Server for Cisco??)

2000-04-19 Thread Ben Nagy
Call me nuts. This is not to say that I have an axe to grind against the PIX 520 or FW-1 - but this "endorsement" doesn't do anything to make my impression more positive. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsu

RE: Question about L2F Tunnels

2000-04-19 Thread Ben Nagy
chele Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: firewalling a windows PDC

2000-05-07 Thread Ben Nagy
ment has not moved to regulate the internet. The last few years has seen an extraordinary expansion of intellectual property rights [...] that is producing an extraordinary power to own and hence control ideas. [Lessig, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lessigkeynote.pdf ] - Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network

RE: firewalling a windows PDC

2000-05-08 Thread Ben Nagy
s. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: TwT (Newbie)

2000-05-11 Thread Ben Nagy
flamewars on this and the other FW lists. There's even been one this year. They're not very interesting though (I know, I was there). tnx in advance for your patience with just another newbie rj Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 4

RE: FW: Redirecting closed port connections

2000-05-11 Thread Ben Nagy
is bad enough. Implying that you're lecturing to _all_ of us...shudder. mouss wrote: The problems with such approach are: [perfectly reasonable argument snipped for brevity] regards, mouss -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To u

RE: gauntlet 5.0 stateful filtering and netperm-table

2000-05-23 Thread Ben Nagy
ht through without any inspection. Are you positive that what you want can't be done with a plug proxy? AFAIK the only reason that they have the ugly packet filter is to block certain types of traffic at the shim driver level to offer a level of protection for the host stack. Cheers, -- Ben Na

RE: Gauntlet Exploit

2000-05-28 Thread Ben Nagy
took one look at the virus filtering gear and thought "UhI don't think so". *sigh* -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- [many cries of outrage] - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

RE: Gauntlet Exploit

2000-05-29 Thread Ben Nagy
tering Princess" Barbie and "Dup'ed fragged XMAS RST" Barbie.[1] Again, please cancel any orders of vengeful FSF goons coming to beat me with GPL'ed rubber hoses. Cheers, [1] Note for US readers: This paragraph contains sarcasm. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0

RE: Where Should the VPN Server Go?

2000-05-31 Thread Ben Nagy
you don't perform NAT at the edge router (in other words, NAT (if you use NAT) on or before the VPN box). Note that you may be able to perform both of these functions on the same box. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubsc

RE: Where Should the VPN Server Go?

2000-06-01 Thread Ben Nagy
-Original Message- From: Robinson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 2 June 2000 1:20 AM To: 'Ben Nagy'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Where Should the VPN Server Go? By "fairly bad from a crypto point of view," I presume you refer to Schneier a

RE: Re(2): Re(2): Firewall

2000-06-06 Thread Ben Nagy
u need to emulate all the state to trick the remote TCP stack. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: Soapbox on firewall evals

2000-06-07 Thread Ben Nagy
of a sow's ear". And as Grandma always says " Heads that don't listen, feel". Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: WatchGuard Firebox how is it ?

2000-06-07 Thread Ben Nagy
PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] I love ugly, convoluted solutions to apparently simple problems. ;) Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

RE: Soapbox on firewall evals

2000-06-08 Thread Ben Nagy
Bad jokes need sharing... -Original Message- From: Paul Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 9 June 2000 1:22 AM To: Ben Nagy Subject: RE: Soapbox on firewall evals On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Ben Nagy wrote: VPN, content screening, email checking, built-in bidet My

RE: Packet basics

2000-06-08 Thread Ben Nagy
the stuff going to the x.x.x.201 address is sent to the correct internal host, multiplexing on TCP source port. Easy, right? Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

RE: Subnetting a Class C for firewall

2000-06-08 Thread Ben Nagy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network and Information(802)388-7545 ext. 236 Systems ManagerFAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc.http://www.computeralt.com Simple Problems, Ugly Solutions. I think I should make that my motto. Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network

RE: CISCO Firewall Feature Set

2000-06-18 Thread Ben Nagy
. Dave Leach, MCSE+ I Systems Security Engineer EWA, Information and Infrastructure Technologies Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RE: CISCO Firewall Feature Set

2000-06-18 Thread Ben Nagy
after five (or so) minutes. Any limitations with the logging of deny statements on ACLs would interest me greatly. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Levin, Alexandre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

Quick PIX question

2000-06-18 Thread Ben Nagy
of sense. The not-quite-IOS syntax takes a bit of getting used to though, and the outbound / apply syntax is a tad arcane. Cheers, [1] If any Cisco bods want more information for the sake of interest, contact me OOB. -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61

RE: l2tp and encryption

2000-06-27 Thread Ben Nagy
e. Cheers, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Geoff Nordli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 24 June 2000 9:59 AM To: GNAC firewall list (E-mail) Subject: l2tp and encryption Could someone plea

RE: Watchguard vs. Netscreen

2000-06-27 Thread Ben Nagy
worked for spent so much time looking for a fantastic firewall that they forgot they were planning to implement NT+IIS with ASP as their e-commerce solution... -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Dan Robb

RE: Disabling unneeded services on a Cisco Router

2000-06-27 Thread Ben Nagy
here have been broken or inefficient in some way which leads me to suspect that ACL stuff isn't as well understood as many people think. Cheers! -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 -Original Message- From: Brian J. Murrell [mailto

Transparent FTP proxies

2000-06-27 Thread Ben Nagy
, -- Ben Nagy Network Consultant, Volante IT PGP Key ID: 0x1A86E304 Mobile: +61 414 411 520 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

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