[JDEV] Firewall jumping

[Robert Thompson]

I am interested in the below comments about Firewall Jumping because my ISP
is putting in a Firewall next month and they have asked me if I want to be
behind it, or outside of it (I know them so they won't charge me for the
firewall use).

- Robert


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael D. Johnson <mike_johnson at credence.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group <gnhlug at zk3.dec.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Firewall jumping


> Thomas;
>
> I played around with the telnet connection to the firewall yesterday on
> port 80 and what you propose definately looks like it would work well,
> both in form and content.
>
> Lets see if my understanding agrees with yours:
>
> 1. jserver establishes a socket connection between port 5280 on the
> local machine and port 80 of the firewall with a conection request.
> 2. A client connects to jserver and asks for the http service
> 3. A HTTP session restricted to GET, PUT, and POST buffered XML messages
> passes to the other jservers using their URLs
> 4. After a specified time, if the client doesn't pass any messages, the
> client is timed out and the session is closed.
>
> Mike
>
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