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Re: Company Firewall's IP Address


From: Bill Hamel <billh () bugs hamel net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 22:42:02 -0500 (EST)

Then routing wise, how do the packets find their way back to the firewall
if they don't know the source IP ? ?


On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Meritt James wrote:

Such is not the case.  I've done otherwise.

Bill Hamel wrote:

Unless I am missing something in the question, no matter what you do,
what/whoever you connect to through a firewall will always know the IP
address of the the trusted interface of the firewall.

-bh

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Meritt James wrote:

"an" IP Address - not necessarily the originating individual.  There are
a LOT of ways around that.

Jim

Leonard.Ong () nokia com wrote:

There is nothing new about finding your IP Address and display it on the web page.

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James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566


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James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566



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