Configuring a Cisco PIX Firewall for use with LapLink - Search Again

SUMMARY

I'm concerned about using LapLink on my corporate network, and want to understand LapLink's Security features. Also, I'm also looking for information about how I can configure my PIX firewall to allow LapLink to make secure connections. Can you help me?

SOLUTION

Currently there is no proxy or stateful inspection mechanism for LapLink. Access is allowed by opening TCP port 1547 to specific hosts or the network at the discretion of the security administrator. For sites using NAT with private address space or NAT with port multiplexing, you will be unable to allow incoming LapLink connections. Sites using NAT and mapping their internal IP addresses to valid public addresses can, if they choose, set up static mappings for particular LapLink hosts to be reached from the outside.

For demonstration purposes we will be referencing the private network 192.168.100.0/24 as our internal trusted network with all filtering relative to the public Internet. Implementation is similar for any external network.

For this example we show how to permit LapLink to connect to the host 192.168.100.45; permitting LapLink to connect to multiple hosts or an entire network is a trivial modification. This does not imply that hosts with private addresses can actually be reached from outside the trusted network, but is a safe example to use.

Assuming that there is an existing static statement mapping the external address to an internal address, in privileged exec mode, create the following conduit statement :

conduit permit tcp host 192.168.100.45 eq 1547 any

For additional information on LapLink's security features, see Technical Document 38, LapLink in a Secure Environment .

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Last updated: Friday, August 10, 2001

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