Friday, June 22, 2018

How do firewalls block VPNs on a packet inspection level?

I am just getting started getting into network security (currently have CCNA and am a network engineer at an ISP) and I do run across customers that have Fortinets, cyberoams etc... that are able to detect and block VPNs.

Now as far as I know VPN traffic just looks like typical encrypted traffic and doing some wireshark captures they look nearly identical. So how to firewalls detect them? Are the IPs compared against a database of known VPN IPs? Does it look at a traffic pattern?



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