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Chapter 14 Firewall 167
As a result, the Device resets the connection, as the connection has not been acknowledged.
Figure 109 “T
riangle Route” Problem
1
2
3
WAN
LAN
A
ISP 1
ISP 2
14.6.4.2 Solving the “Triangle Route” Problem
If you have the Device allow triangle route sessions, traffic from the WAN can go directly to a LAN
computer without passing through the Device and its firewall protection.
Another solution is to use IP alias. IP alias allows you to parti
tion your network into logical sections
over the same Ethernet interface. Your Device supports up to three logical LAN interfaces with the
Device being the gateway for each logical network.
It’s like having multiple LAN networks that actually use the same physical cables
and ports. By
putting your LAN and Gateway A in different subnets, all returning network traffic must pass
through the Device to your LAN. The following steps describe such a scenario.
1 A
computer on the LAN initiates a connection by sending a SYN packet to a receiving server on the
WAN.
2 Th
e Device reroutes the packet to Gateway A, which is in Subnet 2.
3 The
reply from the WAN goes to the Device.