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Re: which firewall product?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenny Kant)
Mon Aug 5 05:46:04 2013

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From: Kenny Kant <akennykant@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 04:45:51 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

If the tunnel is to be terminated on this firewall device I would say look i=
nto a Mikrotik box.  Alternatively you could make Cisco's IOS firewall / zon=
e based firewall do this.  So look into an ISR?


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On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:00 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:

> Hi folks,
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> I'm trying to identify a firewall appliance for one of my customers.
> The wrinkle is: it has to be able to inspect packets inside an IPIP
> tunnel and accept/reject based on IP address, TCP port number and
> standard things like that. On the packet carried *inside* the IPIP
> tunnel packet.
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> =46rom what I can tell, the Cisco ASA can't do this.
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> Linux iptables can (with the u32 match module) but the customer wants
> an appliance, not a server.
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> What appliances do you know of that can do this? Is there a different
> Cisco box? A Juniper firewall? Anything else?
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> Thanks in advance,
> Bill Herrin
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> William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com  bill@herrin.us
> 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/>
> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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