Re: checkpoint authentication on external interface

Francois Yang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It is accepting the packets.
I can get to the page from the outside world.
I don't see any logs for bad attempts.
I can sit here all day and put in bad passwords.

Frank


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Jacson Querubin<[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> The Checkpoint FW1 Gateways don't accept to apply the rule base from
> external interface.
>
> you can always do a fw monitor to see if it is droping or accepting the packets.
>
> cheers
>
> Jacson
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 13:21, Francois Yang<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have looked at the implied rules and I do have an explicit rule to
>> deny all and I don't see anything that would allow this connection.
>> I even created a rule to block this and put it at the top and still
>> don't see any changes.
>>
>> To answer the other emails, Yes, I'm sure I could put an ACL in the
>> front router to block access, but I was hoping to find a better
>> solution.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Frank,
>>> Even if the daemon is listening on the port, you still have to go through
>>> the rulebase to be able to connect.
>>> You should verify if the ports are allowed either in implied or explicit
>>> rules. (try to enable the logs on the implied rules
>>> for a short time to get some logs about the auth).
>>>
>>> I recommend to use explicit rules and allow only from explicit sources.
>>>
>>> I agree it's better if the daemon accepts connections only on internal IPs,
>>> but for this you have to ask checkpoint how to do.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Frank
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