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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet Gateway Security Date: 24 Nov 1995 06:49:43 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <493pu7$7gs@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4928bq$8o3@news2.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4928bq$8o3@news2.ios.com>, wkam@chelsea.ios.com says... > >Hi everyone, > >Perhaps you may assist me with this question. > >Currently, we have a Novell 3.11 network running and we want an >Internet Server Gateway to provide the users internet access. > >If I install the Internet Server onto the ethernet backbone thus >becoming part of our Novell network, would hackers be able to hack >into our Novell network and workstations?? > >Is our Novell network safe? Do we need to install a firewall on the >internet server? Probably not. Most Novell setups use IPX. The Internet uses TCP/IP. Since your server only knows IPX, no one on the Internet can touch it. Tom