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Signed-off-by: Radhika PC <radhika.puthiyetath@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net>
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38 lines
1.8 KiB
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<section id="generic-firewall-provisions">
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<title>Generic Firewall Provisions</title>
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<para>The hardware firewall is required to serve two purposes:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Protect the Management Servers. NAT and port forwarding should be configured to direct
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traffic from the public Internet to the Management Servers.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Route management network traffic between multiple zones. Site-to-site VPN should be
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configured between multiple zones.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>To achieve the above purposes you must set up fixed configurations for the firewall.
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Firewall rules and policies need not change as users are provisioned into the cloud. Any brand
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of hardware firewall that supports NAT and site-to-site VPN can be used.</para>
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</section>
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