RE: External Network Logic

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:18:28 -0600

Hey Tim,

That's such a compelling scenario I think I'll write a detailed article
series on how I would do it. Oh wait, I did :)

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configure-ISA-2004-Network-Services-S
egment-Perimeter-Firewall-Part1.html

GMT.

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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MVP -- ISA Firewalls

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:32 PM
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> Subject: [isalist] RE: External Network Logic
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> Good-- that's what I was thinking...
> 
> Now that my new DMZ (Including a way cool FE Exchange Server 
> DMZ Perimeter 
> ;) is complete,  I was contemplating using this type of 
> config (2 NICS 
> representing Internal and Perimeter networks with no "actual" 
> External 
> network) for my next project of deploying ISA between my clients and 
> servers.
> In this way, I would treat all the users as the Perimeter, 
> and my servers as 
> Internal. I would only allow specific services from the 
> Perimeter to the 
> specific servers necessary.  My only concern was that I 
> really wanted to 
> filter HTTP traffic to my internal web servers, so I was 
> thinking of some 
> sort of "external" implementation where I could publish using 
> the filters. 
> But as you so correctly pointed out last night, even the 
> access rule will 
> use the HTTP filter between the two networks.  So doing it 
> this way really 
> makes it tight.
> 
> I just wanted to make sure that doing this (no external 
> network) wasn't 
> going to cause a rift in the temporal vortex.
> 
> Does anyone see anything wrong with doing it this way???
> 
> t
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:01 PM
> Subject: [isalist] RE: External Network Logic
> 
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> The default External Network is defined as all addresses that 
> defined by
> any other ISA firewall Network. So, there is still an 
> external network,
> you just don't have any access to it, since you've created 
> ISA firewall
> Networks for both the NIC (one for the default Internal 
> Network and one
> for the ISA firewall Network representing the perimeter network NIC).
> 
> You can use this in a number of scenarios, like turning the 
> DMZ between
> the BE and FE ISA firewall into an ISA firewall Network and creating a
> route Network Rule between that and the default Internal Network, but
> still NAT'ing to the Internet. Pretty slick, eh?
> 
> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
> Site: www.isaserver.org
> Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/drisa/
> Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7
> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
> **Who is John Galt?**
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:57 PM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] External Network Logic
> >
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
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> > So, you've got ISA with 2 NIC's.  You define the Internal
> > range on one NIC,
> > leaving the other NIC as "External."  You then add a
> > perimeter network, and
> > give it the IP range of what used to be the "External" NIC.
> > What happens to
> > the concept of the External network since you now have a
> > trusted Internal
> > network and a less trusted "Perimeter" network, but no real
> > "External"
> > network anymore.  Will it just be an "empty" network set
> > sitting there all
> > alone in the cold, cold ground?
> >
> > t
> >
> >
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