
288 Data Communications and Computer Networks
With a firewall in place, the network landscape becomes much different. An organization will place
a firewall at every connection to the Internet (for example, at every T1 line coming into the company).
The firewall can implement security rules. For example, one of the security rules may be: out of the 300
computers inside an organization, only one is permitted to receive public FTP traffic. A company can
set up rules like this for FTP servers, web servers, telnet servers and so on. In addition, an organization
can have control on how employees connect to websites, whether or not files can be ...