I'll disagree with this for one reason. Firewall-GOOD! outside firewall file
server-BAD!!! put it on the inside of the firewall and have the user's
tunnell or loginto the firewall to get access to the files. You leave that
puppy out there on friday and by monday your bandwith is at 100% usage and
wondering who setup a Warez FTP server on your file server.
Guard every file like it was your own......
>From: Ron DuFresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Looking for firewall solution advice
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:31:05 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
>I'd rethink the solution and advice under consideration and put the file
>server on a totally different box, most likely on the outside of the
>firewall on the dmz perhaps.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ron DuFresne
>
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> > I'm advising a company on setting up a network with remote access. The
> > network will be windows machines with a Linux firewall configured with
> > PMfirewall. There will be a single IP wavelan internet feed to the
>firewall
> > which will be masq'ed for the internal network which will use
>non-routable
> > IPs.
> > The firewall machine will also be a fileserver for accounting data. The
> > client would like to be able to access the accounting data on the
>firewall
> > from outside using her laptop connected to a dial-up account somewhere
>in
> > the world. I would like to put in place a VPN solution for her.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > Chris Mason
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