I would strongly suggest that you make your firewall a
dedicated machine. The fact that your firewall is
expected to serve mail, and who know what else,
compromises the firewall concept. I believe CheckPoint
recommends that you disable all non-vital services on
NT if it is to be a firewall.
If you are concerned about buying another NT license
and/or another powerful machine, consider running IPFW
on FreeBSD on an old low-end Pentium. I have two such
firewalls running currently and they work flawlessly.
Andrew Cook
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 6:05 PM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Multiple NICs
I have a question somewhat related to one posed yesterday about binding
IMail to only specific IPs. If I have IMail bound to only IPs assigned to
one NIC -- for example, I have 5 IPs bound to one physical NIC -- will IMail
still answer up for IPs bound to the second NIC? I haven't
tried this yet, but I have plans to install CheckPoint FW-1 on the same box
as IMail, and preventing IMail from binding to IPs on my external internface
(the second NIC) is pretty important. Has anyone done this? I think I've
heard someone talking about using MS Proxy Server before.
Maybe you ran into a similar scenario?
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