Zone types | Interface Types | Tap mode | Virtual wire | Firewall Migrations

ReadTech — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:14:15 GMT

The series of IP Network Security from Beginner to Expert Both conceptual & Practical, has some fundamental topics we already covered in previous articles, today we will explain below topics

Interface & Zone Types
L2/L3 and Tap
Virtual Wire & Tunnel

In our previous posts, the definition & types of Firewall ZONE had already explained in the perspective of Network types like LAN(Trust), WAN (Untrust) & DMZ.

Today will elaborate on Zone type mode in terms of interface & implementation perspective.

Interfaces type:

Layer 2 (used for layer-2 communication, should be part of VLAN)
Layer 3 (For layer-3 communication, should be part of Virtual Router)
Tap (Useful Before integrations deployment of Firewall)
Virtual wire (Virtual wire purpose is for smooth integration of Node in existing Network)
Tunnel (carrying VPN traffic, IPsec)

Zone Type:

Layer 2 Zone
Layer 3
Tap
Virtual Wire
Tunnel

Below link for the complete reading.

https://www.readteknology.com/2023/07/Zone-type-Firewall-migrations%20.html

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