Re: Using Windows server as an internet gateway

From: Frank McCallister (anonymous)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:28:45 -0500

Hi Danny

If you have Premium ISA is the perfect solution but with Standard RRAS
provides good Firewall protection when coupled with a router in a two NIC
setup. Trend is a very good product and adds the Anti-Virus you need and
works very well with Exchange/

Frank McCallister
COMPUMAC
"Danny L" <dliberty@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a4203544.0409061505.2df3ed79@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> We are a small office with 10 clients & a server running SBS 2003
> which also functions as our Exchange server.
> Currently we are using a simple Linksys router with a DSL connection
> as our internet gateway. Recently we are interested in "upgrading" our
> gateway so that users can connect remotely and also make sure a
> firewall is running.
> One of the options was purchasing a VPN/firewall enabled router, but
> those are very expensive.
> An option I had in mind was to use the SBS 2003 server as the internet
> gateway (with 2 NIC interfaces - one to connect to the DSL modem &
> another to the LAN). This is of course based on my assumption that SBS
> 2003 can do NAT.
> As far as I understood, I can use RAS to allow VPN connections to the
> network and 3rd party gateway firewall application to protect the
> connection (such as Interscan VirusWall SMB by TrendMicro).
> This sounds like a nice setup to me, but I'm kind of concerned if this
> is a "classic" solution considering the fact that the server is also
> running Exchange & being used as our file server. Also I'm not sure if
> it is safe to connect our main server directly to the internet.
>
> If anyone can advise on this solution or any other solutions, please
> let me know.
>
>
> -Danny

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