On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:06, Rohan Poojary wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I am a graduate level Environmental engineer, We at our modeling > group are planning to establish our own network. > My Lab description . 2 Clusters with 7 nodes, 10 linux machine , 3 > windows machine. 2 printers and 2x300TB storage device. > > Our problem is secure our network from intrustion from external > network ( we have exp it ). I need a model that will be able achive > this goal. > > I am planning to setup one Linux machine to act as router between the > college network and our network . I also want to install DHCP server, > FTP Server (for some external organisaton to access data ). > > Kindly help me to get a prefect model for our network as we process > and genrate gigs of data in our center . > > eagerly awatiing for ur replies > thanx in advance
AFAIK, if you trust the insiders then that router is the key. Either setup a separate firewall/IDS machine which will sheild the router or setup the firewall/IDS on the router itself. I would recommend the prior. > Air Quailty Modeling Center > Lamar University > TX, USA Wow and you're asking ilug-bom about this? :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

