This may be off topic, so please forgive me... My company is upgrading it's database server. Instead of the five offices running their own database, we're going to operate a central database out of the main office. We are planning to put in a VPN. We evaluated and settled upon WatchGaurd Firebox II as combo firewall/VPN solution for all of our offices. Our offices have/will have DSL connections. The company we're dealing with for the software (MS SQL Server) is trying to angle in on the VPN stuff. They're network guy suggested running a Netscreen box to handle the firewall of the main office and the VPN (I assume the other offices would have VPN client software). The network guy also said we should run Win2K Terminal Server to link our offices. It sounded like Microsoft's version dumb terminals. According to him, this combo of VPN and Win2K Terminal Server would eliminate the need for firewalls at our satellite offices, since "they wouldn't have any data". When I heard the above, alarms went off in my head. I think that the other offices will be vulnerable, if we did this. Am I correct in this assumption? Is this a common solution? Or is this the future? What's the list's opinion of this type of architecture? Thanks, John Bindas Goodwin Attorney Services, Inc. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
