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Deploying Crystal Enterprise with an IP Packet Filtering Firewall

Earlier this chapter noted that IP Filter firewalls restrict network traffic based on IP address and port number. Crystal Enterprise works well with IP Filter firewalls with the proviso that the IP address and TCP port number used by the servers are predetermined. This section discusses a scenario where the Crystal Enterprise WC/Web server and WCS has one IP Filter between the two of them and the WCS is separated from the rest of the Crystal Enterprise servers by a second firewall. In other words, it's the common firewall scenario you looked at in the previous section. This is illustrated in Figure 26.5.

Figure 26.5. IP Filtering—firewall definition.

Let's look at two distinct ...