Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:51:25 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Check Point FW-1 Message-ID: <20001008225125.A25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010090101210.18821-100000@jamus.xpert.com>; from roman@xpert.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:03:08AM %2B0200 References: <20001008125715.T25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010090101210.18821-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:03:08AM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:33:04PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:57:37PM -0700, Craig Cowen wrote: > > > > The big cheeses at work want to use check point instead of ipf or any > > > > other open source solution. > > > > Can anybody help me with vunerabilities to this so that I can change > > > > thier minds? > > > > > > I found that Checkpoint 4.0 (this may have changed) doesn't do NAT > > > right; it uses NAT across _all_ interfaces, instead of letting you > > > pick one. > > > > Right, it determines whether to do NAT by source address, destination > > address, and destination port. Actually, it is not possible to do > > _anything_ per interface from the GUI. Wouldn't it be nice (and > > wouldn't you expect a firewall to be able) to block anything not > > destined for a small block of registered IPs at the external > > interface? Well, you can't put a rule to do that in the GUI. > > That's rule 0 - it does antispoofing stuff. > It's really simple. From the GUI. It's only simple if you have only a LAN behind the box. If you've got multiple, non-adjacent logical netblocks routed behind the box, it is non-trivial to setup the "built-in" antispoofing. > Now, does it have anything to do with FreeBSD-security? Not much anymore, redirected to -chat if anyone still cares. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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