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multiple servers with 1 internet connection and fw
From: g <wangw () singnet com sg>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:26:08 +0800
Greetings, If I have a few Internet server machines (running different applications) and each server is using one dedicated Internet connection and firewall, it is logical to combine all of them into a singel internet connection and use a single firewall to protect them. The requirement is different internet server machines should be separated from each other. So there are basically two kinds of design, one is using multiple network interface on the firewall so that each internet server machine connects to one firewall interface. The problems for this are scalability and performance. The other way is to use routers (or switch) to separate each internet server and connect routers/switch to the firewall, so the firewall will only have 2 interface, one external and one internal (connecting to routers LAN or switch), the routers / switch will be configured to disable traffic among them. Any comments on these two options and your experience on any of them will be most helpful. Any other way of doing this? Thanks.
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