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

[Geoffrey]

John Poltorak wrote:
> 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.

Internal devices would be nat.

> 
> 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.

If the devices in the rooms are for processing patient info, there's no 
need to provide such access, or assume the additional risk.

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


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

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?