Hi Gerald, Another lovely example of the "network guys" subverting the company's (one that I pay big money for in your example) security posture. Its not really routing, unless you have a Network Rule setting a Route relationship between source and destination. GFI works fine, what specific concerns do you have? Tom Thomas W Shinder, M.D. Site: www.isaserver.org <http://www.isaserver.org/> Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/drisa/ Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7 <http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7> MVP -- ISA Firewalls **Who is John Galt?** ________________________________ From: Young, Gerald G [mailto:Gerald.Young@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:59 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition and SMTP http://www.ISAserver.org I have a couple of quick questions regarding the subject heading. :-) If you use ISA 2004 EE and publish an SMTP server, there are two options for handing forwarding. These are: Requests appear to come from the ISA Server computer Requests appear to come from the original client If you choose the "Requests appear to come from the original client" option, is ISA just simply routing the traffic back to the published server or does the traffic stop at the ISA server before final delivery to the published server? And if you are publishing an SMTP server from the internal network through ISA, would a 3rd party application like GFIMailEssentials still be able to work if it was running on the ISA server that's publishing the SMTP server? Our environment is far from an ISA ideal since it's being used by the federal government. Our network topology looks like the following: Hardware firewall -> ISA -> hardware firewall -> internal network The government controls the hardware firewalls where I control the ISA firewall. The original goal here was to "enhance" our SMTP gateway sitting in the DMZ by utilizing ISA. Cordially yours, Jerry G. Young II MCSE (4.0/W2K) Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead HHS Engineering Unisys 11493 Sunset Hills Rd. Reston, VA 20190 Office: 703-579-2727 Cell: 703-625-1468 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx