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find hardware and OS specs on routers

How do you determine the model and IOS version of a Cisco router, if you have its IP address remotely, but have no physical access. For example, I run nmap -sP and can see the router's IP, but all ...
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Does “loose source and record route” drop the source address?

Is the source IPv4 address lost when a person uses "loose source and record route" and the destination address is put before the end of the list of addresses through which routing should occur? It ...
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do different subnet masks on home network provide any security?

So I have two routers on my home network: one is provided by my ISP, and the other is my private router. Router A- ISP router: 192.168.1.x router B- private router: 192.168.2.x Clients on my ...
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Is NAT Loopback on my router a security problem?

Some DSL routers prevent NAT loopback. Security is sometimes cited as the reason. Is NAT loopback really a security issue? And if so, how is this exploited? NAT loopback... where a machine on the LAN ...
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How to bypass restrictive mac address filtering on home network (not malicious)

Background A short sketch of my situation before I formulate my question: I am on a large home network, which is privately administered by a couple of admins. The network consists of a lan and a ...
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Wireless LAN router fingerprinting

Does anyone know of a database that lists the range of MAC addresses that are assigned to each particular brand of router? I would like to use this information for fingerprinting. I know I can find ...
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1 PIX firewall, 2 routers, 2 switches. Please answer a couple questions about hack lab

I bought a bunch of cisco equipment for a project and I got 1 PIX firewall 2 switches and 2 routers This is my plan for a topology but I am new at this so I need help. I am basing this off the ...
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Public DMZ network architecture

Years ago, when I was a student, a network security professor taught me in a class what a DMZ is. The architecture he used in his slides was similar to this one: Now that I got employed, my boss, a ...
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How to reverse the communication for security

I have the following use case - There are two networks - internal network where the application server is deployed and has no internet access and external network that is accessible from internet but ...
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Why do I need a firewall on my router?

I just bought a new router, and as usual the router manufacturer make a big deal out of the firewall. I have never understood why the firewall is needed, sure, stopping dos attacks (such as ...
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Two SSIDs on same Access point- not good?

If I were to offer two networks (one for trusted users and one to visitors) on one physical access point, is this dangerous because a visitor could compromise the trusted network across via the ...
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What devices support the permanent addition of an ARP table entry? What tools are available to manage this?

I would like to improve wireless security and certain other on-net security scenarios with a permanent ARP table entry. The idea being that someone on the same subnet or WiFi network will have a more ...
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What does a switched network protect us from? What does it not protect us from?

There seems to be some misconceptions regarding what a switched network will protect us from, and what technologies/precautions a secure environment requires when segmenting trusted users from hostile ...
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Software suggestions on building a “passive” and “active” WAN simulation and fuzzing device?

I want to build a more-or-less self-contained box that I can plug two or more endpoints into (routers, mainly) that will simulate a WAN. I want to be able to mess up traffic in all sorts of ways, both ...
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How to best set up public WiFi without giving access to the rest of my network?

For reference, this is just for my home network. Anyway, I have quite a few of my neighbors ask me to share my internet with them. I'd really like to eliminate this "here's the password" portion ...
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Is OpenVPN secure in this way?

I'm familiar with OpenVPN because my home router has a builtin OpenVPN server. I would like to use OpenVPN all the time, but how do I deal with situations where I don't own the routers? ex.: in a ...
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Can the loopback interface be hijacked?

Inspired by this question I came up with this weird idea of making what that user actually wants to prevent. So, bear with me for a little bit: Let's assume that for some reason we could make the ...
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How can I be sure that an intranet app is absolutely not accessible from the internet?

I am developing an intranet application using Apache/MySQL. The server hosting it does not have a public IP address itself, but can access the internet through a router. There is not any sensitive ...
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Use a Common Firewall for two Different Subnets

I want to implement a security scheme in a new network configuration. There are two buildings for the client: Office Building 1 (OB1) with address 10.0.0.0 / 255.255.255.0, Gateway 10.0.0.1 ( ...
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Solaris: IP Spoofing Across Ethernet Ports

Given a Solaris machine with two network interfaces corresponding to the separate ethernet ports in the back. 0: 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0 1: 192.168.1.5/255.255.255.0 with /etc/defaultrouter set ...
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Strange STP traffic in my network, possible MitM attack?

I live at a student dorm, where we are connected to a student network. The administrators of this network have forgotten to disable STP broadcast on non-infrastructure ports. Periodically, I lose my ...
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How do Cisco devices identify routers?

Our network administrators forbid the usage of private routers in our college. They bought new Cisco equipment (routers, switches) which detect routers and automatically ban them (it disconnects the ...
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Placing a firewall—without creating a new subnetwork

I have a couple of networks that have multiple IP addresses, and where I have absolutely no choice as to the equipment used for the network's edge router (the device that connects both to the LAN and ...
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Can home routers get infected?

I am behind a router(linksys that runs dd wrt on it) and I was infected with sality. I'm curious, can my router get infected too? If yes, how can I remove the infection? I used the search bar but ...
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Forensics on a SOHO router

I am interested in how reliable the information determined from doing forensics on a SOHO router is. Most of these routers don't seem to be very advanced, so I question if it would be possible to ...
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incoming packets in server

I have enabled iptables logging for packets coming from the outside -A INPUT ! -s 192.168.218.0/24 -j LOG Now i am seeing lots of incoming packets from unknown addresses Jun 5 14:54:56 localhost ...
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Cisco ASA Default Route Issue

We have a test environment which mimics our enterprise network security design. In this test environment my team and I would like to bypass our DMZ entirely. This seems easily enough done by simply ...
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Multiple VPN clients in parallel

If I were to run more than one VPN clients on my machine, simultaneously, what risks would be involved? E.g. are there technical conflicts, such that it wouldn't work right? Could there be ...
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Security Services on Edge Router vs. Standard Firewall

If I can run a site to site VPN, NAT & Reflexive ACLs on a edge router (plus normal routing functions), what would be the use of running a stock firewall behind it? For instance, Core Switch --> ...
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Access to a router's GUI

During a recent visit to a coffee shop, I noticed that they hadn't bothered changing their default user name and password for their router. I realise that someone could log on and be annoying to ...
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How can a company reduce exposure to packet spoofing? What solution should exist, but doesn't?

I'd like to understand what anti-packet-spoofing technology exists (or should exist) to verify an inbound packet. Maybe this is as simple as a Cisco ACL, Firewall Rule, implemented at the network ...