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    Setting up a firewall behind another firewall

    is there a way to set up 2 firewalls one behind the other, the first one is directly connected to the router and use the wan ip and give the network internal ips eg: 192.168.1.....the second one is in the lan and instead of using the wan ip it use a LAT ip generated by the first firewall and forward all the requests to the main firewall
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    You can have as much firewalls after eachother as you like. It'll make administrating them hell but it's possible. Banks and other companies that need just that bit of extra protection usually use 2 firewalls, one after the other, of 2 different brands.

    Keep in mind the subnets/subnetmasks between the firewalls and routing between them.
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    I don't understand.What would be the point of having more than (say) 2, as SirDice has suggested. You say "one behind the other" which implies that they are arranged in series................. this would be pointless, because if the first two didn't enforce your rules, neither would the others.............. they would be redundant.

    You mention a specific number (22) which suggests to me that the number of devices is being taken into account?

    This implies that you have an external firewall and a number of internal firewalls............one for each device. I this case they are arranged in parallel which would make slightly more sense, as they may protect the individual devices from internal traffic?


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    Sorry guys its "2" I misstyped it, anyway the reason behind this is that I work in a company where the firewall is under the control of the internet provider and we only have LAT ips here the wan is not under my control plus the ISP is not filtering everything like what should i do if i need to stop the messengers like MSN,AOL ect... or block certain sites ,thats why I want to set up the ISA 2004 firewall on my DNS/active directory server to resolve this issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harvesterofdata
    {...} I want to set up the ISA 2004 firewall on my DNS/active directory server to resolve this issue.
    Don't.. Use a seperate machine for ISA.
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    As SirDice said using your DNS/AD machine as a ISA server is a very very bad idea. You want your AD/Internal DNS server behind the firewall, you don't want it to be the firewall lol.


    As they said its no problem to have 2 firewalls like that, just set up your IP's and routing appropriately, and your good to go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cheyenne1212
    As SirDice said using your DNS/AD machine as a ISA server is a very very bad idea. You want your AD/Internal DNS server behind the firewall, you don't want it to be the firewall lol.


    As they said its no problem to have 2 firewalls like that, just set up your IP's and routing appropriately, and your good to go.
    yea but the first firewall will make a good protection from any outside threat and my dns will be behind this firewall and the second is just made as a prison gate to deny access to certain sites and messengers from inside and its not a problem if its installed on the DNS server, the gateway of the users and the DNS will be the same and they cant pass to the first firewall without passing by the internal firewall.

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