We've done exactly this to reduce the cost of phone lines to people's
desks, modems, etc.. We use an application proxy firewall and simply
connect Compuserve's port through the firewall. Functionally, it works as
expected. Performance, though, doesn't seem much faster that through one
of their dial-in ports.
>From a security standpoint, the connection is one-way, and I don't expect
any unique security concerns that don't already exist with providing
access to other services.
On Thu, 30 May 1996, Jeremy Youngman wrote:
> Hi, does anybody allow Compuserve access through their Firewall
> (TCP port 4144)? Are there any security considerations, so long
> as i only allow SYN's outbound? Are there any good places to read
> up about this? I've got a user who wants this access.
>
> Please reply by email if poss as I don't usually subscribe to this
> mailing list (yes, it's good and interesting but a little too much
> traffic for me normally).
>
> TIA,
>
> PS This is the 4th time i've send this, so apologies if you keep
> getting copies -- but i've been subscribing to firewalls-digest
> for the last couple of weeks and never seen my note appear --
> and because i've had no replies i'm still not absolutely sure
> whether it is getting delivered properly!
>
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