

In a dual firewall perimeter network, a firewall is located on either side of the perimeter network. The third network adapter connects to the external network (Internet).įigure 1: Single firewall perimeter network with RD Gateway server in the perimeter network The second network adapter connects to the perimeter network. The first network adapter connects to the internal corporate network. In a single firewall perimeter network the firewall has 3 network adapters: Single firewall (three-homed perimeter network) Typically, a perimeter network can be designed and deployed in one of the following ways: This allows hosts in the perimeter network to provide services to both the internal and external network, while an intervening firewall controls the traffic between the perimeter network servers and the internal network clients. Hosts in the perimeter network should not be able to establish communication directly with any other host in the internal network, though communication with other hosts in the perimeter network and to the external network is allowed. Because of the increased potential of these hosts being compromised, they are placed into their own sub-network called a perimeter network in order to protect the rest of the network if an intruder were to succeed. In a network, the hosts most vulnerable to attack are those that provide services to users outside of the LAN, such as e-mail, web, RD Gateway, RD Web Access and DNS servers.

) is a small network that is set up separately from an organization's private network and the Internet. , either RD Gateway server is deployed in the perimeter network or RD Gateway server is deployed in the internal network with an ISA server in the perimeter network. RD Gateway server is exposed to the Internet (an untrusted network) and because of the reasons discussed in the RD Gateway encapsulates Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) within RPC, within HTTP over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection. It allows authenticated and authorized remote users to securely connect to resources on an internal corporate or private network over the Internet. Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) is a role service available in Windows Server 2008 and higher versions. First published on CloudBlogs on Jul, 31 2009
