>>Does that mean your Windows PC is opened to the external world ? The windows PC belongs to a third party client, and we can have them open the port for us.
>>Which server ? The MINA's one ? Yes, the Mina server behind the firewall >>Why ? Can't you add a proxy server in the middle ? >>Just add a proxy between your source of infection (Windows) and your >>safe MINA server, and add some rules on your firewall to only accept >>connection from the proxy for the defined protocol. Could you please give more details how to add the proxy in the middle, so that I can convice our network admin? -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com http://old.nabble.com/file/p29967226/Network%2BDiagram.gif -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/System-design-considerations-tp29966545p29967226.html Sent from the Apache MINA User Forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.