Greg, Thanks for the reply. Do you know where I might find some more information on this?
------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Brown > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:42 AM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Connectivity to china > > I've been down that path.. basically what the Chinese > officials are worried about is the ability of someone in > China to use a "private" > network to then gain access to "inappropriate materials" like > why one economic theory or system might be better than > another. Whatever. So China has created what is fondly know > of as "The Great Firewall of China" to filter out such bad things. > > So you can do one of two things: > > 1. place a govt. approved filtering firewall behind whatever > mechanism you choose to interconnect your offices (leased > line, VPN over Internet, whatever) 2. sign a waiver saying > that you have such filters in place.. but be warned, the > chinese can be a bit harsh if they think you have signed a > waiver saying you are filtering and it turns out you are not. > > That's what I recall about the entire process. Granted this > was in 1999, so things may have changed a bit. > > Greg > > > On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 09:53 US/Eastern, Marvin Blackburn wrote: > > > My boss has asked me to look into any "legal" issues with > having some > > customers in china Connecting to our servers. > > > > Not really sure how to start, but would appreciate some pointers if > > anyone has any. > > We use hpux (with ssh) and standard redhat linux servers. > > > > > > ------------------ > > Marvin Blackburn > > Systems Administrator > > Glen Raven > > "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
