Re: Analyzing a Cisco firewalls connection table

[Tim Eberhard <xmin0s () gmail com>]

Thanks for the Feedback Paul.

The binary only tool doesn't connect to a firewall at all. It requires no
connection and can be ran 100% within a sandbox. It simply takes data from
your firewall. I find that binaries tend to be more user friendly rather
than saying install python, wx.python..etc.

But I do agree with you. This was a sneak peak that I wanted feedback on. I
had always planned to make this open source much like my other project tpcat
(a packet capture analyzer http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpcat/)

Anyhoo. Updated binary and source available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ciscoconnection/

It will run on all modern systems all you need to do is install python and
wx.python. I've tested it on Windows/OSX/Linux.

Thanks again all.
-Tim Eberhard

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Paul D. Robertson <paul () compuwar net>wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Tim Eberhard wrote:
>
> > It is in .exe format and is completely virus free. It requires no
> internet
> > connection. Please give it a try and give me some feedback good/bad/ugly.
> > You can download a copy here: performanceclassifieds.net/CCA.rar
>
> Feedback:
>
> 1.  I'm not sure how someone is supposed to evaluate a binary-only tool
> that wants to connect to their firewall- the potential for malice is
> large, and it's difficult to imagine someone with firewall issues setting
> up an appropriate sandbox.
>
> 2.  Why do people insist on archiving using rar instead of zip?  I can't
> imagine letting a RAR file through a content filter, heck I don't even
> like to allow .zips!
>
> 3.  Windows-only tools aren't very useful to me (one of the reasons I'm
> moving away from firewalls like Watchguard that require a Windows box to
> administer.)
>
> Paul
>
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