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Posted by Anthony on April 7, 2007, 10:26 am
Please log in for more thread options You are misreading my suggestion. It is nothing more complicated than:
- use VPN to achieve secure remote access to the network behind the access
point (router, firewall, VPN device or whatever)
- use RDP to administer the server.
Anthony
www.airdesk.co.uk
> Yes, for that. You are suggesting a secure encrypted protocol within a
> secure, encrypted tunnel (which is kinda okay - VPN is useful for future
> apps); but VPN to _behind_ the firewall is wrong - defeats the purpose of
> the firewall, and renders it redundant in the infrastructure.
>
> Which may be a symptom of another issue:
>
http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp/archive/2007/02/20/firewalls-are-a-thing-of-the-past.aspx
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> --
> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
> -= F1 is the key =-
>
> * http://sl.mvps.org * http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp *
>
>> Overkill for what? For administering servers behind a firewall? It
>> depends what you are running and how secure you want it to be. The
>> original poster does not say what he is running on the server, and asks
>> for ideas.
>> Anthony
>> www.airdesk.co.uk
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>>
>>
>>> G'day:
>>>
>>>> VPN to behind the firewall then RDP back out to the DMZ.
>>>> Anthony
>>>> www.airdesk.co.uk
>>>
>>> Clearly an overkill.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
>>> -= F1 is the key =-
>>>
>>> * http://sl.mvps.org * http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp *
>>>
>>>
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>>
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