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Subject: Re: Considerations on designing a firewall
From: "Donald R. Guillot" <dguill @ communique . net>
Organization: Communique, inc.
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:39:12 -0600
To: Martin Hein <Martin_Hein @ maxmobil . at>
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <80256410:004E9F42 . 00 @ maxmobil . at>
Reply-to: dguill @ communique . net

Martin Hein wrote:
> 
>   Can anyone advise me how to properly design a firewall?
Dual-Homed is the most common...
 A. install two ethernet cards. one for the internal network the
other     for the external.

>   What hardware should I use?
 B. 486  dx2-66 or more with 16 megs of ram - 540 meg HD

>   Which OS should run on the firewall hardware? Why should I use a UNIX-OS
 C. Free BSD and TIS firewall toolkit.

>   (why not)? Or shall I setup a MS WinNT-based firewall (what are the
>   arguments against this solution)?

The above will allow you to set-up a basic proxy firewall solution.


Donald R> GUillot


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