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Re: VPN concentrators
From: m p <sumirati () yahoo de>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:00:21 +0200 (CEST)
--- Patrick Darden <darden () armc org> schrieb: >
I don't agree. Putting authenticated and authorized traffic through a firewall is redundant. IPSEC traffic is trusted traffic. A VPN is an extension of your network--it is as trusted as any traffic internal to your network--perhaps more, as it can be completely accounted for--remember that every packet has a confirmed sip, dip, and payload.
I beg to differ. He talked about VPN - not authorized and authenticated traffic from a source he can trust 100%. Traffic via a VPN can be from different sources with different levels of trust. It can be a company or an employee or a branch office. That are 3 classes of different trustworthy. Perhaps there are more. There were some DoS-attacks against the Windows IPSEC implementation last year. There too was a DoS attack against some open source IPSEC implementation. If you can limit the addresses that connect to the termination point of your VPN it may be worth the additional layer of security. To make sure each person that logins / operate via the VPN is only allowed to see what he/she/it should see there should be a firewall behind the termination point of the VPN. Yes, traffic via VPN should be the same as normal "in-house" traffic. But the connection begin can be a problem - and if traffic via VPN is not "in-house" traffic. If you firewall the RAS users in your company you should too firewall the VPN users. Just my 2 euro cent Marc __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Möchten Sie mit einem Gruß antworten? http://grusskarten.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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