Re: Company Firewall's IP Address

["Igor' Spivak" <urbanachiever () attbi com>]

> 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