We are considering switching our current firewall (Netscreen) and I've looked at Sidewinder and a few others. We host an application that uses TCP80 and TCP443, but this traffic is *not* HTTP or HTTPS. We also host true Web servers, which of course use port 80 and 443.
After looking through most of the docs available on the Secure Computing site and through the archives of this list-serv I can't say with 100% certainty this arrangement will work. Can I specify that a particular inbound public address uses a generic proxy for TCP80 and TCP443, and other inbound public addresses use the WWW proxy? It seems that if our application were to be fed through the Sidewinder WWW proxy, the proxy would reject the traffic for not being HTTP or HTTPS. Opinions?
Steve Smith
