Re: Demon redeem themselves ...

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From: Bruce Horrocks
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 00:00

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Ben Lovejoy wrote:
> 
> Demon's Corporate Services people redeemed themselves today, successfully
> installing our ISDN router and configuring the Mac network for use with a
> Network Dial-Up (NDU) account.
> 
> For anyone considering an NDU account, the basic facts and first
> impressions ...
[snip]

Thanks for sharing this with us. The only extra recommendation that I would
make to anyone else considering such a thing is to include a firewall as well.
The extra security comes from both the presence of the firewall machine and
the fact that you can then run the internal network using "illegal" ip addresses.

Anyone trying to hack-in then only has one ip address to target (that of the
firewall machine) rather than the 100 or so that Demon allocate. It means that
your administrator has only one machine to try and keep secure instead of
every machine on your network - a somewhat unrealistic proposition.

Regards,

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk

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