Re: Nortel Contivity 2600

[misiu <misiu_ () gmx de>]

Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) schrieb:
> Putting the device in question behind the firewall isn't going to help
> him with DoS attacks - unless those attacks are due to malformed
> packets, _and_ the firewall in question drops the type of malformed
> packets that would trigger the DoS.

Hmm, but if malformed packs come, is it not much better to set it behind 
 an IPS? Firewall is not allways the right thing to protect, i guess.
I don't really understand why Nat is not working....
The Adresses of the tunnel are not encrypted, do they might have a 
checksum wich is altered through a NAT device?

Do I see this right?

misiu

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