Topic: ISDN Connection with firewall

[Jason]

Hi,

I need to connect my e-smith server via ISDN securely through a firewall.  I realise there are many different ways of doing this and i would like to know what the easiest one is.  

Can e-smith be used as a firewall in server and gateway mode thus no need for a seperate hardware firewall?  If so can someone direct me to somewhere where this is explained.

Is an ISDN router or modem better?  My thoughts are that a router will be more complicated to set up as the router does the dialing not e-smith right?  But can a hardware firewall be implemented if an ISDN modem is used connected to a com port of the e-smith machine.  

As you can see my knowledge is minimal, sorry in advance if any of these questions are too basic for this forum!

Thanks,

Jason

[Charlie Brady]

Jason wrote:

> Can e-smith be used as a firewall in server and gateway mode
> thus no need for a seperate hardware firewall?

That's exactly what it is designed to do/be.

> If so can
> someone direct me to somewhere where this is explained.

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/papers/e-smith-security.html

Charlie