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Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming
From: Michael Gale <michael.gale () bluesuperman com>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:26:16 -0700
Hello,Check out some firewall appliances ... most of them have some sort of standard.
For example I used the following:Connections from Internal to the DMZ are allowed if they match one of the forward rules on the firewall.
The forward rules only allow packets from sources addresses to destination addresses on specific ports which are ruled to be a business requirement.
For connections coming from the DMZ to the internal network which are required for business (Example. Postfix SMTP server to forward mail on to Exchange). The DMZ server connects to a proxy or a NATing rule.
DMZ server never know the IP of a internal server, the DMZ network has the same relations with the internal network as the external network does with the DMZ.
So the DMZ mail server would connect it port 25 on the firewall and that traffic would get forwarded to the Exchange server.
That is the standard that I use ... was this what you were looking for ? Michael Craig Humphrey wrote:
Hi, Can anyone point me at some resources on how to diagram firewall rules? Every time I talk to another engineer, they want it in a different format... It's driving me nuts! So I'm looking for something reasonably standard that I can at least use internally, if not force on the engineers... Thanks Craig
Current thread:
- DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Craig Humphrey (Dec 01)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Charles mckee (Dec 02)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Michael Gale (Dec 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Craig Humphrey (Dec 03)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Spigga (Dec 06)
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Craig Humphrey (Dec 07)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Michael Gale (Dec 06)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Spigga (Dec 07)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Spigga (Dec 08)
- Re: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Michael Gale (Dec 06)
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming aldr1c (Dec 08)
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Gaydosh, Adam (Dec 08)
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Jackson, Gary (Dec 08)
- RE: DMZ / Firewall rule diagramming Craig Humphrey (Dec 08)