From: misiu (misiu_@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 05:14:18 EDT
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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