Hi there, I am just scoping the different kinds of firewalls I could use to protect my network when it goes live next month ("live" as in permanent broadband connection and fixed IP)
Anyway, the reaso we are doing this is to host certain services, and also to use VPN instead of dial ups....
I have determined that using a seperate PC with 2 or more NIC's as a dedicated firewall/proxy combination would be ideal from a security standpoint, but as any good firewall will mask the network (giving just one secure IP address in)
and because the firewall will not be the network server itself, how can I channel VPN connections through to the server? how will this affect the VPN protocol itself, ie will it work through NAT, and if not, what would work? can the dedicated firewall machine become a VPN server????
In short, what are the possible ways to tunnel VPN through a firewall into a network server?
might be a silly question, I've never seen VPN actually set up or even working!!!! you can imagine.....
Hope you can help.
Tels
Anyway, the reaso we are doing this is to host certain services, and also to use VPN instead of dial ups....
I have determined that using a seperate PC with 2 or more NIC's as a dedicated firewall/proxy combination would be ideal from a security standpoint, but as any good firewall will mask the network (giving just one secure IP address in)
and because the firewall will not be the network server itself, how can I channel VPN connections through to the server? how will this affect the VPN protocol itself, ie will it work through NAT, and if not, what would work? can the dedicated firewall machine become a VPN server????
In short, what are the possible ways to tunnel VPN through a firewall into a network server?
might be a silly question, I've never seen VPN actually set up or even working!!!! you can imagine.....
Hope you can help.
Tels