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

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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