[Am-info] Greenpeace throws out Windows --- a social trend?

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:06:49PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:

> > The sooner the better, though she needs to rethink whether she really
> > needs those machines connected to the internet.  The best firewall is to
> > have separate machines for internal data that have no outside network
> > access.
> 
> Yeah, I've told her that we really need to sit down and talk about how 
> this network should really look, as well as the possibility of having 
> two separate networks altogether.

There are ways of seperating networks logically...

For instance you could run Netbios internally and TCP/IP externally. I 
never use TCPBEUI since there is some risk of providing external access to 
resources. Also using an internal network addresses should isolate you 
from the outside.

In principle, I think it's a bad idea to physically seperate networks
since the Internet does provide such a wealth of resources you want to 
provide access to as many people as need it, but you can easily do this on 
an internal network by installing something like SQUID as a proxy server.

> > Mark
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> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

-- 
John