which firewall product?

Kenny Kant akennykant at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 09:45:51 UTC 2013


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


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

> Hi folks,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> From what I can tell, the Cisco ASA can't do this.
> 
> Linux iptables can (with the u32 match module) but the customer wants
> an appliance, not a server.
> 
> What appliances do you know of that can do this? Is there a different
> Cisco box? A Juniper firewall? Anything else?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
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