RE: IP addressing on firewall

["Reckhard, Tobias" <Reckhard@secunet.de>]

Wrong. The 'firewall' is the default gateway of the hosts on the private net
and in the DMZ. Unless you've got a layer 2 firewall (no, you most probably
don't).

Regards
Tobias Reckhard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronneil Camara [SMTP:ronneilc@oneconsulting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:58 AM
> To:   'firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET'
> Subject:      RE: IP addressing on firewall
> 
> Since we're talking of the firewall which implements DMZ, only the
> interface
> that is exposed to the internet should have a gateway and that gateway
> should have the ip address of the router facing the internet also. I don't
> need to put any gateway ip address on the private and dmz lan cards,
> right?
> 
> Ronneil
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