Hello, On Aug 2 18:13 Rob Davies wrote (excerpt):
One incident that comes from personal experience, was in a "trusted" company network. Basically I got port scanned from the Internet Gateway host
If you have the ports open in the firewall for the services which you use in your internal network, the firewall would not help you against a port scan or against any kind of attack regarding the services which you use in your internal network. If you use services in your internal network, you cannot protect them with firewalls inside your internal network. You can only protect your whole trusted network with a firewall at the borderline of your trusted network. If the protection at the borderline fails you are basically doomed. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org