9 Feb
2015
9 Feb
'15
2:14 p.m.
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:54:04 -0200, Patrick Tracanelli said:
On a bridged firewall you can have the behavior you want, whatever it is. Passing packets with firewall is down, but the box still up.
Owen's point is that passing packets if the firewall is down is really poor security-wise. If you run in that configuration, I simply DoS your firewall (probably from one set of IP addresses), and then once it has fallen over and is being bypassed, I send my *real* malicious traffic from some other IP address, totally uninspected and unhindered. Much hilarity, hijinks, and pwnage ensues.