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Hello Jim,
Am 25.05.2022 um 14:17 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
VPN connections still have rules that apply.
This highly depends on the detailed implementation. Technically, as well as policies imposed by company rules. And personal taste of the main admin.
Just because the “same subnet” is in place does not mitigate those rules.
Unlikely. I have never seen any company doing Firewalling on layer 2 in my whole career as network admin. But then, most companies I worked with are on the small to medium scale. I have tinkered with it myself using Cisco ASA, but only to see how it works.
Maybe big companies do it, but then I fail to see a benefit besides keeping a long ago established huge L2 domain beings stretched over WAN links. To me, a failure in proper network planning.
But I digress. ;-)
In any case, does it hurt to look?
Of course not.
Again, does it hurt to look and understand the environment a bit more clearly?
The answer is again: No. :-)
The limitation I referred to is on any/all file movement, not to only email, which considering the situation would not apply anyway.
Again, this depends on the technical implementation. Technically, as well as policies imposed by company rules. And personal taste of the main admin. :-)
I have not yet seen a firewall solution which allows to limit a file's passing through it on the network layer when the amount of bytes exceeds a configurable size. "Firewall" is often misused for any perimeter securing device. Some include an SMTP relay, some a web proxy, and blur the definition even more. Both of these proxies are a feasible way to limit file sizes passing the device, because the actual file can be extracted more or less easily prior to pass it along. But I've not yet seen a device allowing to limit the traffic to a certain byte count being passed between any two endpoints via rule. To me, this just doesn't make sense. Instead such a function would introduce a lot of abuse with a following shit storm from users not being able to do their usual things. :-)
:wq! PoC
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