Hello there Gurus of the world, After having read several good postings about FW-1 et al, I thought I would share with you all an article I found interesting and that might be of interest to some of you. The following URL: http://people.netscape.com/shadow/work/inspect/index.html I dont't know if it has already been posted in this list (have not searched the archives...) but anyways, It has good information about the INSPECT script code that is used by FW-1 and provides examples of safely allowing PING, Traceroute and VitalSigns 'NetMedic' traffic through the FW-1, besides nicely explaning the way Traceroute works and the two approaches to implement it. Besides sharing this, here is an scenario I am facing for the moment and am trying to figure out the best cost-effective way of implementing it. MainOffice using FW-1 V4.x, and Remote users scattered all over the country are using SecuRemote to get in. It works OK so far, but it demands that every remote user (some of them at the same remote office) occupy a phone line, thus becoming an incovenience specially at those offices where there are even 5 of these remote users trying to connect at once. Of course, in these remote locations another approach has to be taken, of course. After looking around for options I see that the Nokia routers seem to be the low-end option for this kind of setups... but still their pricing ranks higher than what we were expecting at the moment. Based on your experience guys and gals, have you had an scenario like this and have been able to share a remote VPN access with more than one user at a very cost-effective way? (I read some articles in the phoneboy site -www.phoneboy.com- that someone tried to share one of the SecuRemote clients access... defined as the 'PoorMan's VPN' setup :). This section describes the use of proxy servers to accomplish this... although I tried a couple but did not work). Any feedback on this will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Francisco Lopez G. BTW and FYI, the referred site: www.phoneboy.com, has lots of good information about FW-1... ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
