Hi Ingo, Thank you for your response.
> i mostly learn by reading reference manuals, standard documents, > and source code. I try to too, but with limited successes. So topology and other higher order concepts are out of my competency area, and hence my question. > I mentioned it to show that the strength of two-tier firewalls has > been well-established in standard textbooks for a long time. Understood. The recommendations for these standard textbooks is what I think I was going for. Regards, ab ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|--