Re: DMZ design - Exchange, SQL, & DCOM

["Michael Borkin" <borkin () netquest com>]

Bill,

Thanks again for all your help and the references.  There is nothing like
being in totally over your head on something as important and complicated as
this and I really appreciate you taking the time to point me in the right
directions.

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        The firewall doesn't know anything about what goes on in the DMZ.
The firewall
        only knows about what tries to pass through its interfaces.

    </snip>

That's what I thought was the case, and I figured you had just switched
contexts from placing the SQL server in the DMZ to placing it on the
internal network when you started talking about using IPX or NetBeui to pass
info through the firewall, but I wanted to ask just to make sure.

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        BTW what firewall are you going to be using?

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Checkpoint's FW-1 (VPN-1) on an NT base.  I've heard its one of the best,
but this choice is totally out of my hands.

Thanks again for all your help


Mike