Re: Demon Email

["paul_watkin" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

The ISDN router (and when/if it is released the Vigor 2600 which will 
replace it) cover the NAT side of things. I also have an IpCop box 
that will sit between the router and my network as soon as I get the 
bl**dy thing to recognise the 3Com (3C509) network cards!!

I was struggling to see the value add of a proxy server apart from 
the aforementioned caching activities but thought I had missed 
something.

cheers

Paul
--- In ukha_d@y..., "Ian Lowe" <ian@w...> wrote:
> Paul, if you can surf the net, and have never set up Proxy Server,
then you
> need to go here:
> 
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
> 
> and do a port scan. it's possible you have more problems than an 
open SMTP
> relay.
> 
> The main thing you get from a proxy server, or NAT firewall, is IP
hiding:
> an entire network can hide behind a single IP address, rather than
every PC
> having to have a "real" internet address.
> 
> Proxy Servers are (IMO) a complete waste of time. NAT based 
firewalls with
> stateful inspection, such as Firewall-1 or the super cheep Winroute
provide
> better access (almost 100% transparent to the user) without as
many
> overheads.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul_watkin [mailto:paul_watkin@n...]
> Sent: 13 June 2002 16:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Demon Email
> 
> 
> I can see the benefit from the caching perspective but am lost as
to
> it's benefit in the context of enabling browsing the web and using
> Outlook etc, after all I can browse the web on my network now and
I
> don't have a proxy server running (Or do I??).
> 
> Is a proxy server necessary in order to use Exchange?
> 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> Paul



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