Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

Monitoring a firewall

When monitoring a firewall, it is, of course, different whether you monitor the internal port (numbered 1 in the following diagram) or the external port (numbered 2 in the following diagram):

On the internal port, you will see all the internal addresses and all traffic initiated by the users working in the internal network, while on the external port, you will see the external addresses that we go out with (translated by NAT from the internal addresses), and you will not see requests from the internal network that were blocked by the firewall. If someone is attacking the firewall from the internet, you will see it (hopefully) ...