Re: How to select the firewall

From: Duane Arnold (darnold92@Insightbb.com)
Date: 05/30/02 

From: "Duane Arnold" <darnold92@Insightbb.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:16:06 GMT

I am starting to look at the Linux thing just to see what it can do. I will
say this about BID. It is not some BS pesonal firewall for the desktop like
ZA, Tiny, Outpost, etc., etc. Linux may be a viable soultion, but BID is
too.

"Khayman" <khayman-nopigbottom@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Home" <myself20010615@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:A1RI8.4859$Ed1.1102638@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > Hi, all
> > We are going to set up a small business system with a web server (Apache
> > Tomcat) providing the Internet access, a file server used as the storage
> and
> > an application server (Weblogic or WebSphere) for the developments. We
> want
> > to put the web server in DMZ and the file and application servers behind
> the
> > firewall. The current main concerns are the pricing and functionality.
> We
> > may not want to buy the hardware to provide the firewall functionality.
> At
> > this moment, we are only interested in the software solutions. Any
> comments
> > and recommendations regarding the best layout and firewall software for
> the
> > system will be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> You said you didn't want to buy a solution, but please consider that
> anyway - a software solution (esp. running on windows) with a "personal
> firewall" protecting your business interests is not that good of a
> solution...
>
> Please take a look at www.bbiagent.net and consider buying the cheapest
> little second hand pentium box you can find, put in two network cards and
> you're off - it's linux but it's so easy to setup that there's no excuse
not
> doing so...
> (there are other solutions similar, but bbiagent is really simple to
setup)
>
> How to set it up?
> I'd recommend two bbiagents (they won't cost you too much anyways) - one
> protecting/routing your DMZ, only allowing traffic on certain ports, say
80
> and 443 perhaps, the other protecting/routing for your private network's
> access to the internet.
> Put the DMZ on a separate IP segment from your private network and you
will
> have the standard solution for a DMZ.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Khay.
>
>
>
>
>

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