RE: Slashback!

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn () artimi com>]

Skyler King wrote:
> > Hello Gord,
> >
> > Do you know how the firewall identifies a "friendly" network?  Does
> > the firewall tap into the wireless layer in Windows to get out the
> > SSID and base station MAC address, or does it just verify the
> > subnet?  I don't actually "use" any of my windows boxes, so I have
> > never used this kind of stuff :).
>
> I can't speak for other PFWs, but ZoneAlarm uses a combination of the
> gateway ip and MAC address to indentify a network (wired and wireless).
> In
> addition, unsecured wireless networks are automatically put in the
> untrusted
> "Internet" zone.
>
> sky


  Up until very recently, ZA was sooooo secure that it didn't even place the
loopback adapter/subnet in the trusted zone by default.

<g>  Needless to say this was responsible for more confusion than security....


    cheers,
      DaveK
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