Hi guys,
I'm new in the forums but i use them a lot to check things and I could say "Great Job" Thanks a lot about your help. So, what problems I have:
I don't want to open 3 different questions because I think all that I post here a "connected" to each other. I'm learning now about server 2008r2 and I'm building small test lab at home. I have 1 public IP, wrt54gl (router, gateway, firewall) and vmware esx behind it. I create different port groups so I could separate different networks to test.
Q1: As I understand, I could use server 2008 R2 like a "Edge server" only thing I have to do is to set up Routing and remote access. There is also NAP and so on. But in some documents and examples I saw in the diagrams - "firewall". What will you recommend to use as a firewall? I check about Forefront TMG or you have better idea? Currently from time to time i use pfsense but it's a little bit complicated there.
Q2: While I am learning I found that a lot of applications are using port 443 (ADFS, Exchange, IIS and etc). And here is a question: When I install these applications (all of them) or play with different scenarios how to separate incomming request on port 443 to different servers? I could do a port forward 443 in my router to internal IP address but this is in case when I have only one App/Server that needs port 443. What to use as a solution to separate or to point different requests? Maybe I have to set up a DNS with "legs" in a different networks and create a host record for every server inside it? Could TMG or Endpoint do it?
Q3: In some technet articles I saw something like this: Firewall (External Subnet) -> Edge server (External IP from External Subnet) -> Firewall -> Internal Network. I'm not sure how to do it? I guess this is "mapping" inside the firewall to match IP from external network direct to computer behind the firewall, and in my case with only one public IP it is not possible to do it.
P.S. If you say: yes with TMG or Endpoint you could do it, I'll start learning TMG/Endpoint before asking new questions, but before
reading 300+ more pages I need to know if this is what I'm looking for.
I'm afraid I'm too stupid to figure it out. Thanks in advance