> I like to place one dmz in my net but my boss like an arguments for > this... > I find in the net why dmz is better than a simple firewall? > but not found nothing concrete to display to my boss
About any basic administration book will tell you the purpose of DMZs. You can't interchange the terms DMZ and firewall. A DMZ is basically an area where you want to give people access to, such as mail servers, web servers, etc. A really general network topology that is commonly used is: FIREWALL | DMZ | FIREWALL | INTERNAL NETWORK or can be as basic as DMZ | FIREWALL | INTERNAL NETWORK DMZs allow for proper and safe separation of publically accessible machines and internal network machines. Mike
