And of course, people by-pass firewalls for a reason too. Clearly the user here feels the firewall is too restrictive. It's a lot like passwords. If they're complex enough to be secure, people use post-it notes. The real question is whether or not the user has the authority to by-pass it and whether or not the firewall admin has the authority to be so restrictive in the first place. Bob -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Evans Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:24 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: AW: Firewall workaround On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:10:29 +0000, Antony Stone wrote > I thought you meant you wanted to bypass the firewall filtering and > access some (specific) machines using protocols which were being > blocked, but if you want to have a more general routing solution > then I agree that a VPN is the way to go. And you do, of course, mean to observe your organization's Internet security policies, right? Organizations put firewalls in place for a reason. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ |
