Re: Using Windows server as an internet gateway

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From: SBS2K_03 (SBS2K_03_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:28:43 -0400

What features of vpn do your clients need? Remote access? Why not RWW and
then you only have 4 ports open to the world
443
444
4125
25 assume exchange is using smtp and you are not using the pop3connector
so 3 or 4 ports only.

no port 80 and you are all clear.
strong passwords for the rww feature and keep the patches upto date.

Susan has started a comparison article on RWW/vpn
http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/08/23/12245.aspx

HTH 

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SBS03 Rocks!!!
"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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