FW: Internet Connection / Firewall

I forwarded this to my INTERNET/FIREWALL person and here is his response.
We are a group of hospitals here in Portland. Lot's of HW all over town and
several remote clinics. We have 2800 desktops. Almost everything talks to
everything. If there is a way to connect we probably have it.


Kirk Goins - SysAdm
Legacy Health System
Portland, Or

Kirk...FW this on to Jay at Midrange:

Jay,
Our environment is similar to yours. Use of router filters does provide some
protection. However, when Banking information is at risk, use a router as a
DMZ and a firewall for main security platform.



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From: Jay Trenary
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: Internet Connection / Firewall
Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 7:23AM

Hello All

I am looking for some opinions or experiences from this knowledgeable
group.  We are going to get an internet connection that will come from the
phone company into our frame relay network.  Our AS400 and Novell file
servers are all connected to this same network.  The phone company is saying
that we can use the router as a firewall rather than buying a true firewall.
Are there any of you out there that are or would consider doing that?  It
makes me nervous as there are 4 banks running on our AS400.

Jay Trenary
Glacier Bancorp Data Center
Missoula MT


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