Re: With or without proxy !

[Eric Daigneault <scouby@xxxxxxxx>]

At 10:00 AM scouby@vacv.com -0500, you wrote:

Ok, sorry, I was trying to make short n sweet !

Ok, for the purpose of the situation, let's consider I'm pretty good in 
securtity architecture and
firewalling.

I've never been a fan of the proxying technologie, for a lot of reasons ! 
And I have never used any on the architectures I have built before.

Let consider a architecture looking like the plan1 attach here !

If i put my mail server in the local DMZ, there is two way to make it 
accessible from the internet, POT (Port Adress Translation) or by proxy.
The same if I want to let the user access the web (80).  I can make it 
straight out with filtering or by proxy... And so go on for every
single internet services !

So, now i'm asking, why should I use a proxy... Is it really better, or not ?



>Eric,
>
> > I'm working on a security architecture, and I need some opinions !
> >
> > It's simple... with or without proxy !
>
>You'll really need to do some research before someone can give you an
>educated response. The term "proxy" is very broad and depends on your
>environment, users, bandwidth, should be part of a firewall system, etc.
>
>Start by reading the firewalls FAQ:
>http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/firewalls/fwfaq/firewalls-faq.html
>
>Best,
>Dave
>
>--
>Dave Wreski
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>(201) 934-9230                Pioneering.  Open Source.  Security.
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