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Firewalls acting as access controllers
From: Green Horn <teachgreenhorn () yahoo com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:15:05 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, I am new to firewalls. Do firewalls provide dynamically defined access control i.e., can they act as access controllers. e.g., it should be able to do the following, a user tries to access a resource, the packets would come to the firewall, if they are HTTP packets and the user is new (from IP address not being in the authenticated list), the packets would be redirected to a webproxy, the webproxy tries to get the user authenticated by a AAA server (say RADIUS), the firewall would get an authorization message from the AAA server (or webproxy), saying the time the user must be allowed access, the resources he can access etc. The firewall would provide that access. Can this be done by the firewalls in the market such as Checkpoint firewall-1 greenhorn. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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