Steve,
Thanks for the response and detailed one at that! Im a rookie, but have a
decent grip on the functionality and purpose of the cards. Guess I did a
poor job of stating my inquiry.
Since most folk using CF are also running a webserver on the same machine...
I assumed you were serving web pages and dynamic web pages at that, with
this box, hence my curiosity as to why IPSec was more important in this
scenerio than releiving the cpu of the networking protocol traffic.
I m trying to find out if Im missing something by NOT taking advantage of
the IPSec enabled cards - other than sending info over the wire with a bit
of encryption other than SSL. Wondering what drove your decision to encrypt
data transmissions on THIS server - is it doing monetary trx's or you just
felt securing all data trx's was a good idea or .....???
Thanks again - if this is prying or you care to reply off list - that'd be
great.
All the best,
Stephen M Aylor
> Subject: RE: Let's Brag...
>
>
> >Stephen,
> >
> >IPSec is one means to control/secure traffic to and from the server.
> The box
> >is behind a proxy/firewall that communicates with the CF server over
> IPSec.
>
> >The Intel NICs are there to relieve load attributed to IPSec only. The
> >Pro/100 Intelligent Adapter is geared more towards having lots of
> generic
> >traffic and/or numerous VLANs. Intel accomplishes this...
>
> I'm more curious about your network topology rather than the function of
> the NICs. Is the box you described your CF, web, or database server?
> Are you communicating over a public network between the servers, thus
> the need to secure the connection?
>
> Jim
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