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Firewalking is a technique developed by Mike Schiffman and David Goldsmith that employs traceroute-like techniques to analyze IP packet responses to determine gateway ACL filters and map networks.

'''Firewalking''' is a technique developed by Mike Schiffman and David Goldsmith that utilizes [[traceroute]] techniques and [[Time to live|TTL]] values to analyze [[Internet Protocol|IP packet]] responses in order to map networks and determine gateway [[Access Control List|ACL]] filters. It is an active reconnaissance [[network security]] analysis technique that attempts to determine which layer 4 protocols a specific firewall will allow.

Firewalk is a software tool that performs Firewalking.

To protect a firewall or gateway against firewalking one can block outgoing TTL messages to avoid exposing information about your network. Additionally, using [[Network address translation]] is useful to hide internal network addresses.

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{{cite web | title=Firewalk : Can Attackers See Through Your Firewall?

| url=https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/312/firewalk-attackers-firewall/100588 | access-date=2024-05-09

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320023059/https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/312/firewalk-attackers-firewall/100588 | archive-date=2022-03-20

| url-status=live

| last=Irby

| first=David

| year=c. 2000

| work=GIAC Certifications

}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[TracerouteAccess Control List]]

* [[Firewall (computing)]]

* [[Access_control_listTraceroute]]

== References and notes ==

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== External links ==

* [http://packetstormsecurity.org/UNIX/audit/firewalk/ Firewalk tool], an Open Source tool that determines gateway ACL filters and maps networks by analyzing IP packets responses.

* http://ethneo.free.fr/index.php/le-firewalking/ Tutoriel de firewalking]

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/wooterwoot/ WooterWoot], an Open Source set of tools that builds [[Check Point]], [[Cisco ASA]], or [[Netscreen]] policies from logfiles.

* [http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/firewalking.html Use Firewalk in Linux/UNIX to verify ACLs and check firewall rule sets], article on using Firewalk, by Lori Hyde [[CCNA]].

===Projects===

* [http://packetstormsecuritylinux.orgdie.net/UNIXman/audit8/firewalk/ Firewalkfirewalk(8) - Linux man toolpage]

* [http://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/312/firewalk-attackers-firewall/100588 GIAC / SANS Institute Description of Firewalking]

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