A few months ago, I helped a customer connect to the Internet. We called
in an ISP and they gave us a range of IP addresses. We modified the
network to use those addresses, then we waited for SWB (South Western Bell)
to install the IDSN (128kbps), ten days. When the ISDN was installed, the
ISP came in with an Ascend box, placed it on the internal network,
connected the ISDN line to it, instructed the built-in firewall about a few
things, and bingo, they were on the Internet.
Mail goes through, the users can browse the Internet and everything else is
closed off. If they want FTP access, they will need to program that in the
firewall, but it is not a big deal.
My suggestion to you is to find an ISP and explain what you need to them.
They can spec it out and install it very quickly, if they are any good.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax: (281) 355-6879
[log in to unmask] www.hicomp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Pearce [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 1997 12:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Need Tutorial Info
The boss has decided to upgrade to a full time Internet connection when we
move to our new offices. With a full time connection, I need to start
looking at security and possibly proxy server issues.
I've already started reading Building Internet Firewalls by Chapman and
Zwicky (O'Reilly and Associates). What else should be on the "must read"
list to get up to speed?
If it makes any difference, I expect we'll be running FTP on the HP3000,
allowing remote logins to the 3000 from the Internet (this makes me
nervous), allowing certain PC users to browse the web and continuing to run
SendMail and DNS on the NT server. The decision to use frame relay or ISDN
for the full time connection is awaiting a reply from U.S. West on
provisioning to the new office site.
Thanks!
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John Pearce <[log in to unmask]>
Colorado Springs, CO USA
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