Re: [c-nsp] Campus Network - Deployment mode of Perimeter Firewalls

2020-08-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
What is the difference? Does not the "campus network" provide a service? -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. >-Original Message- >From: cisco-nsp On Behalf Of Nick >Hilliard >Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [c-nsp] Campus Network - Deployment mode of Perimeter Firewalls

2020-08-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
Not to mention the obvious observation that a firewall designed to "fail open" must not have anything of any importance behind it, so it (the firewall) merely exists for "checkbox compliance" with the checklists of incompetent arseholes and clueless retards, and not because it serves (or is

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Maximum Prefix limit on Edge routers

2020-08-11 Thread Aaron
Absolutely. Make sure to add enough overhead, 25%, so you do not keep getting warning messages in the logs. These are the defaults for XR To prevent a peer from flooding BGP with advertisements, a limit is placed on the number of prefixes that are accepted from a peer for each supported address

Re: [c-nsp] BGP Maximum Prefix limit on Edge routers

2020-08-11 Thread Curtis Piehler
Yes this is a common practice to follow for extra security measures. In the off chance a provider starts flooding your network with more than what is required it will safe guard your network. You can set a slightly higher warning threshold. Usually more prevalent in MPLS environments as there

[c-nsp] BGP Maximum Prefix limit on Edge routers

2020-08-11 Thread Yham
Hello Gentlemen, I wanted to ask if this is common practice to apply Maximum prefix limit on BGP neighborship with Internet providers from where you are getting the entire routing table. I know its consider a best practice but want to know if its also common. If yes, what would be the max limit

Re: [c-nsp] Campus Network - Deployment mode of Perimeter Firewalls

2020-08-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
Yham wrote on 11/08/2020 04:33: Thanks for your comments. I kinda agree with you on avoid using transparent mode however not clear why you wouldn't want your north-south traffic pass through perimeter security devices (FWs). how would you protect your network from outside if you don't have

Re: [c-nsp] Campus Network - Deployment mode of Perimeter Firewalls

2020-08-11 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:33:06PM -0400, Yham wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I kinda agree with you on avoid using transparent > mode however not clear why you wouldn't want your north-south traffic pass > through perimeter security devices (FWs). how would you protect your > network