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Internet
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Firewall
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Servers for
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eg Web, mail
etc
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Firewall
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Internal lan
------------Of course, depending on your purposes and resources this may be over the top.
Fil
moise lim wrote:
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:07 am, El 4Love wrote:
i was only involved in programming on machines setup by administrators all this while and now only I managed to setup my own network at home.
I am certainly not aware of many of the security related issues. I would appreciate if someone could let me know how bad the security is in my network, and suggestions to rectify it.
well... i m no expert on network security and i can only go by what i have come across in my readings ...
my understanding is that a more secure setup is probably
-------- Internet -------- / / ------- ADSL ------- / / --------- Web svr --------- / / --------- Firewall --------- / / -------------- My Network --------------
as i do not have a publicly accessed web svr myself .. i am simply guessing at the above topology ... and i m happy to be corrected by those more familiar with such matters :)
i have seen previously from one of the other postings where a firewall was installed between the ADSL and Web Svr as well
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