I'm just going through the prep material for the Network
Administration part of the OCP and there's a fairly detailed
discussion about how Connection Manager can be used as a kind of proxy
firewall. It's referred to as Network Access Control where rules or
actions are specified for individual client machines and servers. By
this method we can, apparently, dictate who gets to connect to the
server and who get's refused. To configure this option the individual
clients have to be configured to 'prefer' using Connection Manager to
connect to the server on the individual machines. What I was wondering
was what is to stop someone just changing that preference at the
client to circumvent the rules in Connection Manager. Am I missing
something here or are we relying upon a basic level of ignorance on
the part of the user to ensure that the rules are enforced. I know
that not all clients would have Net8 Assistant installed but it is
downloadable after all.
Received on Tue Sep 11 2001 - 04:55:54 CDT
