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NFR Wizards Archive: RE: Say it ain't so

RE: Say it ain't so

Giesinger, Nick HE0 (ngiesinghealth.gov.sk.ca)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:28:56 -0600

It ain't so.

I have done this a couple locations were I walked in, plopped a firewall
in place, plugged it into the local LAN and connected to the Internet.

Plopped is not the right word but there a number of products that I have
seen that would allow connection to the Internet with out modifications
to the desktop. The key feature would be "Multiple Address
Translation".

Nick G.
SHL SystemHouse LTD.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Jim Leo [SMTP:ADMINeverett.pitt.cc.nc.us]
        Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:43 AM
        To: firewall-wizardsnfr.net
        Subject: Say it ain't so

        Hi All,
                I've got a meeting with our Firewall Installers on the
29th. Got
        pulled into as a result of 'centralizing' our
computer/technology
        staff and creation of a helpdesk. The upshot is this. We have
been
        apprised by one of the staff (Originally selected
        installation/Firewall) and was told that every device behind the

        firewall would have to 'be touched' for anything to work. It
almost
        sounds like a complete rework of the network setup/standard. We
were
        told that all IP addresses would have to be changed. Somehow I
get
        the impression that this is the installers idea, and I'm not
quite
        willing to by into it. I feel that it should be possible to
'plug-in'
        any properly configured firewall (with the exception of the
proxies)
        and not have to reconfigure machines.
                Am I wrong?
        Jim Leo
        admineverett.pitt.cc.nc.us

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