Re: How automate firewall tests

[sai <sonicsai () gmail com>]

On 8/18/06, Marcus J. Ranum <mjr () ranum com> wrote:
> Durga Prasad wrote:
> > There are couple of tools which test if a firewalling is leaking any packets.
>
> People still rely on packet-based firewalls??!!! You're joking, right? It's 2006!
>
> mjr.

Well surely if you are testing a firewall then you should test the
basic packet filtering first, then move up to the layer 7 stuff. If
the firewall is failing at layer3,4 then the layer 7 work is not going
to be of much use.

sai
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