Re: firewall recommendation

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

As others have mentioned, the Cisco PIX will do what you're talking
about. They aren't easy to learn but are as close to bulletproof as you
can get once they're working. We have a setup similar to yours. Our
mail relay, web server, and FTP server are in a DMZ, the Exchange
server (which is currently worrying me) is behind the firewall of
course. The PIX supports its own VPN setup, but we put a VPN server in
our DMZ and have our users remote desktop to their work machines if
they don't want to use web mail.

If your a defense contractor, you probably want to get a CISCO guy to
do the setup and then you can maintain it with a little self training.

You also COULD get a good machine with two fast NICs and your favorite
*NIX OS and write your own firewall rules. That's what I do at home,
but I prefer the hardware setup at work. For some info about firewalls
(including bridging firewalls which we're looking at now) and some free
software that's pretty darn cool check out http://www.fwbuilder.org/

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Best practice to setup a DMZ? (hyperV and guests)
    ... this time with an edge server (its my understanding that the ... So my goal here is to setup this edge server for OCS and setup exchange 2010 ... correctly dmz wise (not clear on how that would be yet.. ... The most common setup is the back to back firewall model, where you have one firewall between the Internet and the DMZ and another between the DMZ and the LAN. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)
  • Re: Traffic Routing and Content Filtering
    ... As Cris says with only 1 NIC ISA can't be configured in firewall mode. ... internal IP of the SBS server using the Change Server IP wizard in the ... Here is my setup. ... We have Cbeyond here at my office. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Home Network Ideas
    ... you will need a firewall and it's better to have firewall on a seperate ... rather than in-built firewall on a server. ... Follow the below link to download, install and setup the firewall: ... > Since you're probably looking at a low-hit website for personal use, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Home Network Ideas
    ... you will need a firewall and it's better to have firewall on a seperate ... rather than in-built firewall on a server. ... Follow the below link to download, install and setup the firewall: ... > Since you're probably looking at a low-hit website for personal use, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)
  • [fw-wiz] (no subject)
    ... i have cisco pix firewall that is sending it log data to a cisco syslog ... is running whenever the server is up and running. ... - is there any other syslog server which could work with the cisco pix ...
    (Firewall-Wizards)