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Aaron

posted on 18th Dec 05 at 00:01

Great :)

Ask the right people and get the right answers :thumbs:


Ian

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 23:10

Netgear DG834


Aaron

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 21:28

ok thanks, i'll look at a few routers that will do what i want.

Do you happen to know any?


Ian

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 21:22

I would personally go for individual ports rather than DMZ'ing the whole computer as the former is slightly more secure.

If you have a vulnerability on a DMZ computer then you are wide open. If you are only allowing in for selected services then you have lessened the odds of being visible.


Aaron

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 21:09

hmmm...interesting

the dmz idea is good, i never looked at it that way.

Thanks for that :)


Ian

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 21:06

Yes, most support this.

You could open up just the remote desktop ports and connect to the 2003 box, or go direct in on 21/80 for FTP/HTTP.

If that doesn't work you could just DMZ the server and you would have effectively identical config to currently, but your other computers would have more transparent access to outside.


Aaron

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 20:58

Yeah i thought of that.

But with a router will i still be able to have remote access, host web sites and be able to transfer files using ftp to and from my server?


Ian

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 20:49

Slow answer is loads of stuff, additional software, more config etc etc.

Quick answer is buy a router?


Aaron

posted on 17th Dec 05 at 20:28

Ok here goes...

I've got a Windows Server 2003 Box sat in a cupboard acting as:

Active Directory Server
Internal DHCP, DNS
Proxy server
Ftp Server
Http Server
Dynamic DNS Host

This server is directly connected to the internet using a usb modem. Before i installed active directory i used ICS to share the connection across the network (built in home internet sharing thingy) but now AD is installed...that functionality has gone.

So i'm now using a proxy server (Squid NT recommended to me my Tim aaages ago)

Problem is, there are alot of things i can no longer do on the client machines like using ftp to update my site, use psp stuff for example. This is down to using a proxy server i'm sure.

So...my question is, is there any other way i can make this server the internet gateway without having to use proxy server software.

I have a dynamic IP assigned by mu ISP by the way.

Thanks

Aj.