[j-nsp] Juniper firewall filters/stateful firewalls best practice

[Daniel Lete]

Hello Shawn,
You may have seen
Securing Provider Backbone Networks: Packet Filters, Traffic Shaping and 
Related Best Practices 
(http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/white_papers/200180.pdf)

in http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/white_papers/

there is also a section on Security that may be of use to you.

Daniel


Shawn Hargan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a security audit with a Juniper M7i with built in ASP and 
> an M10i with a discrete AS2PIC. Is there any documentation on typical 
> best practices for Juniper firewall filters and stateful firewalls? I'm 
> curious whether it's worth it to define firewall filters to block out 
> easy traffic before the packets are passed to the stateful firewall, or 
> if that AS2PIC has enough horsepower to make the basic filters moot.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.
> -SH
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