Books on cisco routers/Firewalls

Gavin

Does ayone know of any decent books that cover cisco routers and firewalls. Sort of on how to configure a cisco router bearing firewalls in mind..

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Gav

Jaden

There are 3 ways to configure a cicso router for firewalling:

1. The right way.
2. The wrong way.
3. The Jaden (TM) way.

The Jaden way:

1. Deny everything.
2. Sit back and wait for irate phonecalls from marketroids.
3. Open up protocol by protocol, port by port. If in doubt, deny.
4. Get the number for your service providers 24/7 tech support, and tape it to somewhere very visible. (The lesson everyone learns the first time they're DOS'ed.

I had some good URLs for setup/configuring. I'll post them up when I get home.

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Hail To The King, Baby.

Jaden.
Mail: jaden@eircom.net

Loomer

Seriously Todd Lamales book on the CCNA course would be a good place to start. Around £50 in Hodges & Figges

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782126472/qid=993571064/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_2/103-9972599-4763860

While reading it theres nothing I like more than drinking a cool, refreshing glass of Coca-Cola and eating a wholesome Snickers. If nature calls nothing beats the comfort of Charmin Ultra

The Cigarette Smoking Man

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Verb:
Does ayone know of any decent books that cover cisco routers and firewalls. Sort of on how to configure a cisco router bearing firewalls in mind..

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The CCNA book from Exam Cram is good. You should keep the firewall seperate from the router as it's very handy to be able to plug a PC in outside the firewall (if you have routed ip addresses). You can also get Firewalls from Symantec and Checkpoint:

http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=47&PID=6438740

http://www.checkpoint.com/products/firewall-1/index.html

TU154

With Cisco your firewall and router are separate, unless you buy a firewall feature set for your router. The Lammle book is a good starter for the router, but it's low on detail and not terribly accurate. At the other end of the scale is Cisco's CCNA Preparation Library which is poorly written and is overly detailed. But it has loads of content.
Your first line of defense on a Cisco router is access lists, and a reasonably good one on this is Cisco Access Lists Field Guide, ISBN 0072123354.
On Ciscos firewalls the original starter book was Managing Cisco Network Security, but they've changed the courses and I'm not too sure what's current. www,ciscopress.com is always a good place to start.

Ronin

Young Gav,

As Jaden says deny everything if in doubt . By firewall if you mean those nice access lists that block everything, then deny deny deny. If by firewall you mean an actual firewall..then look for some howto's on ipchains/iptables or if using the bsd's ipfw howto's..

There's nothing worse then configing a router incorrectly. If your not sure ask someone , it'll all end in tears otherwise..

I think I've a load of generic ones floating around somewhere in work that I can forward onto you.

Ro

Gavin

Cheers paul, i'd appreciate that. my redbrick email if you please
hehe thanks.

Aye I am aware that my router is seperate to my firewall. I was looking for something that would explain well how to configure a router bearing a firewall in mind.

Thanks for the suggestions.. any more ?
Gav

Ronin

Gav,

I found some books that you'd be very interested in ..

Catch me on redbrick and I'll sort ya out.

Ro

The Cigarette Smoking Man

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Verb:
Aye I am aware that my router is seperate to my firewall. I was looking for something that would explain well how to configure a router bearing a firewall in mind.
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If you want you could put an access list on the router to block inbound connections on port 139. Other than that the two are totally seperate.