Re: diffrent way of securing a subnet! Please help

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OpenBSD makes a great firewall, and it's extremely secure. It's also
_VERY_ powerfull in how you can build your ruleset, more so even than a
cisco pix firewall in my opinion. check it out: www.openbsd.org

> Hello All!
>       I need to secure a subnet and restrict access to certain users. I have
> been looking at different way to do it and I didn`t find many real way
> to do it just some concept. Here the solution I found on the net:
>
> 1- Access-list on the interface of that subnet. Very difficult to
> manager and limite allowed user to use a specific workstation or vlan.
> 2- Cisco Pix firewall. Too expensive not justifiable for the projet 3-
> Remote access software. Which one is really secure? PCanywhere, VNC,
> terminal server 4- Authentication base proxy. Novell borderManager seem
> to do the job, squid also seem to do it. Any other that can be link to
> an active directory 5- VPN software peer to peer. Microsoft has a
> solution.
>
> I also read about  role base access control (RBAC) but it seem to be
> implemented in the OS not as a stand alone software or in router. Am I
> right? Where is the official web page for squid?
>
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