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Subject: Re: TIS: plug-to UDP
From: Frederick M Avolio <avolio @ tis . com>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 09:32:38 -0500
To: tjo @ precisionair . com, jcgomez @ mad . servicom . es
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

This is, of course, frightening.  Why buy a proxy-based firewall if you are
going to then allow UDP services through it via a packet filter?

If this is the FWTK, you ought to float this by the people on that list. If
this is the Gauntlet Internet Firewall, you ought to discuss it with
technical support at the company from which you bought it.

Fred


At 07:33 AM 2/7/97 -0500, tjo @
 precisionair .
 com wrote:
>Juan,
>
>The plug-gw proxy on the TIS gauntlet can only handle the TCP protocol.
>However with IPFS (Read the fine man pages.) you can open up a filter into
>you internal network to allow UDP in.  One of the problems being... 
>Your external router (or, any specific host that you wish to use this
>filter) will need to know a route into the internal network.
>
>timothy j otis
>
>At 11:03 AM 2/7/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Has anybody know how to pass UDP packets through a TIS firewall? 
>>With plug-to (this only permit TCP connections)?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Juan Carlos.
>>
>>
>
>

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