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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Setting up a web proxy server
- From: Nick Drage <nick-drage@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:41:07 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009242021080.94-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> Nick Drage <nick-drage@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Nick. I always think of you as Swiss Nick!!!
<grin>
> > What make is the ISDN router? Do you administer it or have any
> > control over it? I'm thinking that you could:
>
> It is an Ascend, I believe. I am not at school so cannot check at the
> moment. We have full control over our network - the router sits next to
> the server and we can do with it what we wish. We connect to the
> Internet using IFL (an RM company). The router is a standard 2x64K ISDN
> 2e affair.
I've only ever used the Ascend Pipeline, and if I remember correctly that
can do Packet Filtering. Depending on the firewalling or not from IFL you
may want to have a crack at learning this or get IFL to put some filters
in place.
Presumably they've some filters in place anyway to force students to use
their Proxy Servers? So you could request that these are modified so that
only the IP address of your Proxy Server can access their proxy servers.
As before, any URLs detailing the standard RM set ups appreciated.
> > I presume you don't have a range of "legal" Internet IP addresses for
<snip>
> Actually we do, if I read you correctly. We have range of IP addresses
> we can use. Each machine on the network has its own IP address and can
> be pinged from outside. We run our own mail server too, using NT Mail
> (although mail is collected globally from the ISP using POP3) so we have
> quite a nice little system.
I'm a little worried about being able to ping your desktops from the
Internet, especially as they're Windows. ( No OS religious arguments
intended, IMHO Windows doesn't deal well with the kind of zany packets
script kiddies are fond of throwing around the Net ).
> Does this make things easier?
Sort of, depends on the solution you decide on.
--
Nick Drage, helping fill up the internet since 1993.
"Napoleon couldn't take Moscow, Ronald McDonald just danced in."
- - Ben Elton
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> Nick Drage <nick-drage@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Nick. I always think of you as Swiss Nick!!!
<grin>
> > What make is the ISDN router? Do you administer it or have any
> > control over it? I'm thinking that you could:
>
> It is an Ascend, I believe. I am not at school so cannot check at the
> moment. We have full control over our network - the router sits next to
> the server and we can do with it what we wish. We connect to the
> Internet using IFL (an RM company). The router is a standard 2x64K ISDN
> 2e affair.
I've only ever used the Ascend Pipeline, and if I remember correctly that
can do Packet Filtering. Depending on the firewalling or not from IFL you
may want to have a crack at learning this or get IFL to put some filters
in place.
Presumably they've some filters in place anyway to force students to use
their Proxy Servers? So you could request that these are modified so that
only the IP address of your Proxy Server can access their proxy servers.
As before, any URLs detailing the standard RM set ups appreciated.
> > I presume you don't have a range of "legal" Internet IP addresses for
<snip>
> Actually we do, if I read you correctly. We have range of IP addresses
> we can use. Each machine on the network has its own IP address and can
> be pinged from outside. We run our own mail server too, using NT Mail
> (although mail is collected globally from the ISP using POP3) so we have
> quite a nice little system.
I'm a little worried about being able to ping your desktops from the
Internet, especially as they're Windows. ( No OS religious arguments
intended, IMHO Windows doesn't deal well with the kind of zany packets
script kiddies are fond of throwing around the Net ).
> Does this make things easier?
Sort of, depends on the solution you decide on.
--
Nick Drage, helping fill up the internet since 1993.
"Napoleon couldn't take Moscow, Ronald McDonald just danced in."
- - Ben Elton
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