Best Practices for Enterprise networks
Iljitsch van Beijnum
iljitsch at muada.com
Sun Aug 29 23:06:36 UTC 2004
On 30-aug-04, at 0:50, Tracy Smith wrote:
> Hello. I am tyring to gauge what the Best Practices are for
> Enterprise network connections to the Internet. Specifically, to NAT
> or not to NAT? At what point should NAT-ting be performed ...
> exclusively at the Egress point or at decentralized points? What
> about firewalling - centralized/decentralized?
Fortunately, I've never been in the position to make such decisions,
but I can tell you one thing: if you have multiple connections to the
internet, you had better make sure that your NATs and firewalls are
equipped to handle the case where you send a packet out through
connection A and the reply comes back through connection B.
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