Re: Hidden ISP firewall/filtering

"Craig Van Tassle" <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:42:27 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Your best bet is to check with your ISP.

A good way to check is to setup a couple of servers on a box, put that
outside your firewall and then see if you can telnet to them. I would use
a box that you can wipe after you do this test.
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> I recently purchased a Watchguard XTM2 to handle our firewall and VPN with
> IPSec, but when attempting to connect via VPN with IPSec, it gives a
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> of "VPN gateway not responding (waiting for MSG2)"  I have removed our
> watchguard from the network and when I do a "shields up" scan it shows all
> ports being closed.  Long story short . . . does anyone know if there is a
> way to find out if our ISP actually has a firewall/filtering in place, or
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> have any other thoughts.
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