See below. At 09:12 PM 2/11/02 -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >Hello All, > >I had asked a question about mapping NFS through the firewall some >time ago and agree that it was not a good idea, but recently the idea >of setting up a VPN started to make sence to me regarding this >problem. > >If I were to setup a VPN between 2 machines, the LRP I wold guess and >the outside client, then the client on the VPN should act as though >it it is really behind the firewall. > >Wouldn't the then allow me to use NFS to connect to the client >machine from the server which is inside the real firewall protection?
I've never actually done this, but it should work. Your main problem will be slowness, if the external connection goes over a slow physical layer (like a DS1 -- even 1.5 Mbps is slow compared to Ethernet, and this is the kind of situation in which the slowness will show). OTOH, the VPN'ing itself won't make a setup like that all that much slower than an insecure version ... so if your client has lived with that before, he will probably find what you set up acceptable. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user