Bypassing H/W FW

Discussion in 'other firewalls' started by rOadToIS, Aug 11, 2009.

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  1. rOadToIS

    rOadToIS Registered Member

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    Is it possible to bypass hardware firewall such as the one included in conventional router?
     
  2. alex_s

    alex_s Registered Member

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    Depends on "bypass" definition. HW firewall has not process-dependent filtering, so any program can bypass it if its traffic fits HW FW rules. But I don't think it is possible to bypass HW FW rules.
     
  3. rOadToIS

    rOadToIS Registered Member

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    So it's possible to bypass even hardware firewall to discover open ports?
     
  4. elapsed

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    This sentence doesn't really make sense, if you've bypassed it you've discovered an open port and somehow managed to get it to accept your data. Good luck with that! :p
     
  5. rOadToIS

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    I was asking if it was POSSIBLE to bypass the hardware firewall since you can't find any open ports without bypassing it.
     
  6. Pedro

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    That's actually not how it goes.

    If you want to learn a bit more on networking and firewalls, this tutorial did it for me, at least got me started really well:
    http://www.urs2.net/rsj/computing/kerio/index.html
    Do the PRELIMINARIES, ie, read up on the terms listed there.

    It's a Kerio 2.1.5 tutorial, but the sequence - learning networking concepts - tweaking kerio - observing and answering firewall prompts for browsers, IM clients, P2P etc. provided me a good overview of it all, without needing to be an expert (you don't become one either, note).
     
  7. rOadToIS

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    Thanks for the resource.
     
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