UnderFire Test Information
Introduction

Evaluation Reports

Test Information

Evaluate Firewall


People Involved

References

Part of the firewall evaluation criteria is a number of tests to be performed on a firewall. These tests focus mainly on the ability of a firewall to repel many common attacks that a network may experience, although some benchmarking is done as well. Since the test environment is small, focused, and in a heavily controlled environment, these results should not be taken as thorough examination of a firewall's ability to work as expected under all conditions and configurations. Some measure of assurance that a small set of basic functions work correctly may be gleaned, however. Please choose one of the following topics for more information about the tests.

  • Information about the available tests
  • A detailed description of the test driver programs and ways to design your own tests.