Tony, It is certainly possible to capture the IP address of the external interface of the firewall. Something as simple as a tracert could identify this on an open session. It would certainly be improbable that one could capture the IP address of anything within your internal network space unless i) it was specifically published, or ii) a direct route was enabled through the firewall, or iii) the firewall had been breached. This is simply a marketing angle. Disregard.
Bruce -----Original Message----- From: tony tony [mailto:tonytorri@;yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cisaca Subject: Company Firewall's IP Address I was doing security research on the internet at work yesterday....when all of a sudden I got a pop up advertisement that stated that I was broadcasting my IP address to the entire internet. It then showed a screen with my IP address which was the the external IP interface of one of our companies firewalls. 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. Click on the following to learn more about this pop up site. http://www.bonzi.com/internetalert/ia99m.asp __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
