>>Put your BSD in the DMZ if you have a spare public IP.

What's the advantage of putting the mail server on the DMZ as all the boxes
are "public" boxes that is to say they are either web or mail
(smtp/pop/imap)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Chris Hunt
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Fwd: [SonicWALL]- placement of smtp mail servers
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> Put your BSD in the DMZ if you have a spare public IP.  As for speed I
> would think it should handle it but I'm only pumping at 1.5meg
>
> Chris
>
>
> >I have two questions about my Sonicwall 300
> >
> >ONE: I'm curious to learn the load capacity of a Sonicwall 300.
> According
> >to the info the transfer capacity is over 100 megs a second. Does this
> >mean if the Sonicwall is connected to a 2.5 meg connection that the
> >sonicwall could never be overloaded with too much traffic.
> >
> >TWO Currently I have three medium volume web servers behind the 300. I
> >would like to add a SMTP server that processed about a gig of
> data a day.
> >The box is a BSD box running Postfix and SSH only so it's pretty hard.
> >Should the box be placed behind the firewall and should it be on
> a regular
> >port or the DMZ.
> >
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