On Sept. 29 , our Office of Information Technology and Services will
be meeting with the vendor that will be installing our firewall. I am
already more than a little leary (not Tim) of some of what I thought
I heard. Our 'rule' will be inside-out=OK / outside-in=requires
smartkey. I am concerned about the following issuses.
1. That we will have to touch each device for them to get to the
outside world. Sounds like an IP address change to me.
2. Tunneling inside to outside.
3. Modems in machines behind firewall. Yes I know. But the
requirement for Dial-in is there.
4. No IPX through the firewall. A requirement exists to access
Novell servers on a separate network.
I am concerned about the 'Honest' risks of 2 and 3 above. I would
like opinions (direct to me NOT the list) about 1 and 4.
Thank you for your consideration
Jim Leo
admin_at_everett.pitt.cc.nc.us
Received on Sep 18 1997
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