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Subject: Re: SAP and Firewalls
From: Joe Loiacono <jloiacon @ csc . com>
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 07:25:01 -0400
To: Scott_Thomas @ em . fcnbd . com
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <001031FF . 1944 @ em . fcnbd . com>

Scott_Thomas @
 em .
 fcnbd .
 com wrote:
> 
>      To All:
> 
>      Our company is implementing SAP in all of it's locations.  Our desire
>      is to have internal firewalls between the main corporate location and
>      outer offices.  We have attempted to run FW-1 in two locations so far
>      with the same result.  If a user at the outer office runs an SAP
>      process that only involves one UNIX host at the main office it works
>      fine.
> 
>      When the SAP process involves more than one host the returned
>      transmission is never received, although it seems to leave the UNIX
>      host. 

Tough problem. Are you running a sniffer on the interior networks (all
LANs attached to servers)? See what's coming into the firewall. That
might help.

Good luck,

Joe
-- 
In theory, theory and practice are the same; 
In practice, they're not even close!


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