Re: IPS vs Firewall

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-05-05 Cutequyz wrote:
> another thing, the interface should be invisible (can't be ping adn
> detected by port/ip scanner, even from your inside)

*sigh*

The interface is *not* invisible, regardless whether it does respond to
ICMP echo-requests or not. Please read up on how IP works. If the last
router doesn't respond with something like host-unreachable or network-
unreachable, you know that the host is in fact there.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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