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Subject: Re: New gloabal company problem
From: jsanchez @ gmv . es (Julio Sanchez)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 95 17:05:55 +0200
To: jbarnes @ aztec . co . za
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <m0rxESA-000KdeC @ aztec . co . za> (jbarnes @ aztec . co . za)

> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 95 15:52 EET
> From: jbarnes @
 aztec .
 co .
 za (Jay Barnes)
> 
> RFC 1597 (global addresses) seems a potential cure, except that we most
> definitely DO want to connect to the Internet.  We can put our Web pages on
> a friendly Service Provider, who will also (I think) carry any DNS service
> we need, but our users want, in particular, email, FTP, Archie, etc.  We
> have routers available (Cray - what d'ya mean you never heard of 'em), and a
> Sun with Firewall-1 (still to be evaluated, but purchaseable if suitable).
> 
> Basic question.  If we use RFC 1597 addresses, how do we connect to the Net?
> Do proxies, application gateways, whatever, do address translation, so that
> only our official address gets published?  If so, how easy is it to relate
> that internal address to external address, on a per session basis, so that
> we can audit the use )and abuse!) of the service?  (A man's gotta make a
> livin', no?)

As far as I know, you can do what you want with the TIS software and
you cannot do it with FireWall-1.  For other packages, I have no
direct experience and cannot comment, but I am pretty sure that
someone will fill the gap...

As an aside, it is funny to see how organizations that actually manage
to get a class B find it small...

Julio
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