RE: Firewalll LAN port and switch port

["Roger Onken" <ronken () stein-industries com>]

mission_mink () yahoo com wrote:

> I need technical assistance, I visited few vendors who deal
into firewaal. Few of them say they have 4 switch port and 1
LAN port, but does it make any difference since as per my
knowledge goes switch port and LAN port are one and same.

I think they are just stating they have an additional 4
ports you can connect devices to.  We have an older
Watchguard firewall that only has 3 ports - LAN, WAN and
DMZ. We have found times it would have been nice to have
additional ports to plug into for a different configuration.
The newer W'guard devices do come with additional ports
built in for additional traffic routing. They state they
have 6 ports available, but don't mention having a 6 port
'switch'.

Roger Onken

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathaniel Hall [mailto:nathaniel.d.hall () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:46 AM
To: mission_mink () yahoo com;
security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Firewalll LAN port and switch port

mission_mink () yahoo com wrote:

> I need technical assistance, I visited few vendors who deal
into firewaal. Few of them say they have 4 switch port and 1
LAN port, but does it make any difference since as per my
knowledge goes switch port and LAN port are one and same.
>  
My assumption is that they mean WAN port.  Usually on
personal routers/firewalls and some higher end products they
will have a built in switch that is inside the
router/firewall and one connection that is outside the
router/firewall.

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Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA