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Re: Firewall and DMZ topology


From: "Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:53:07 -0700

From: Christopher Ingram <cmi () crystalsands net>
So, the below setup is not decent for a corporate LAN. Ideally, the DMZ should sit on a seperate connection to the Internet from the rest of the network, using a different ISP and therefore, different IP block. This provides the most isolation.

I'm afraid I don't see how that:

internet --> Firewall --> Lan

internet --> Firewall --> DMZ

would be any more secure than this:

internet --> Outer Firewall --> DMZ --> Inner Firewall --> LAN

or this:

internet -->  Firewall --> LAN
                            --> DMZ

which are the setups that I've seen. Can you give some justification/explanation on why you think that would be better?

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe and a quick recompile."

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