RE: Nortel Contivity 2600

["Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro)" <dciccaro () cisco com>]

For the 'why NAT and IPSec don't play nice together' question, go check
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3715.txt - and after reading that, check for
IPSec NAT-T (rfc-editor being a good place to start)

You mention deploying the VPN box behind an IPS device. Yes and no. What
are you trying to achieve? If your IPS box is inline, and does protocol
checking/normalization, that could work - the IPS would drop the
malformed packets and notify the management console (possibly). But do
you need/want to have that information? 

Before deciding where to connect the VPN device (firewall, inline IPS,
nothing) we should decide what we want to achieve by doing it.

And there have been some comments about the VPN box interaction with
NAT. Deploying it behind a firewall != NATting - either because you
configure a 1:1 translation between public IP/private IP, or you use an
L2-firewall.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: misiu [mailto:misiu_ () gmx de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:14 AM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Nortel Contivity 2600
>
> 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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