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Update 'fools' article to clarify wrong-interface issue
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<para>Occasionally, we hear from someone who has cabled his firewall's
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external and internal firewall interfaces to the same switch. I call this
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configuration <firstterm>The Fool's Firewall</firstterm>. </para>
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configuration <firstterm>The Fool's Firewall</firstterm>.</para>
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<para>When the external interface supports broadcast, this configuration
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has two very bad drawbacks:</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The up-stream router can send incoming packets to the wrong
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interface.</para>
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<para>Both the up-stream router and the local systems can send
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incoming packets to the wrong interface.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</section>
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running Windows) send broadcasts, those systems can be easily detected by
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using a packet sniffer. Once the systems have been spotted, it is child's
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play to add an IP address in Fool's internal IP network and bypass his
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"Firewall". </para>
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"Firewall".</para>
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<graphic align="center" fileref="images/Fools.png" />
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</section>
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the firewall's internal interface.</para>
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<graphic fileref="images/Foolsa.png" />
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<para>A similar problem can occur when a local system sends to the
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"Firewall" or to the Net. The packets may arrive on the firewall through
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the <emphasis>external</emphasis> interface.</para>
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</section>
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</article>
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