Re: Default configuration in WatchGuard Firewall

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Sun Sep 05 1999 - 04:07:58 PDT

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    On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alfonso Lazaro wrote:
    
    > 	So if our firebox is defending our internal network ( 192.168.x.x ... )
    > and our WG Firewall is a proxie with an external ip in internet ( 100.100.100.100 hipotetic ip address ) the atacker can change his/her routes like so :
    >
    > 	# route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 100.100.100.100
    
    I am afraid this will work only if either of these conditions is true:
    1. the attacker is connected directly to the firebox's external interface
    2. the attacker's OS will source route such packets and every intermediate
       router will honor the specified source routing
    
    --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
    "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
    



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