>I was doing security research on the internet at work yesterday.... >It then showed a screen with my IP address > which was the the external IP interface of one of our companies firewalls.
if this firewall is used to route from your lan<-->internet then it is logical that its adress could be dispolayed in that popup > It just bothers me that someone would be able to determine the IP address of > our firewall that easily. It seems to me that our firewall should operate in a > more stealth mode. Our firewall administrator said it is not technically > possible to do this. What is your take?.I am not a checkpoint firewall guru.so > I do not know. All I know is that if I was a hacker, I would love to hammer > away on an ip address that represented a firewall. > you probably need to do more research on how Ethernet and tcp/ip work before doing any more security research, that will really help in your understanding how things work. good basic read: http://www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM hope this helps, ids
