[TriLUG] Connectivity to china

[Marvin Blackburn]

Greg,

Thanks for the reply.  Do you know where I might find some more information
on this?

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George   

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Brown
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:42 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Connectivity to china
> 
> I've been down that path..  basically what the Chinese 
> officials are worried about is the ability of someone in 
> China to use a "private" 
> network to then gain access to "inappropriate materials" like 
> why one economic theory or system might be better than 
> another.  Whatever.  So China has created what is fondly know 
> of as "The Great Firewall of China" to filter out such bad things.
> 
> So you can do one of two things:
> 
> 1. place a govt. approved filtering firewall behind whatever 
> mechanism you choose to interconnect your offices (leased 
> line, VPN over Internet, whatever) 2. sign a waiver saying 
> that you have such filters in place.. but be warned, the 
> chinese can be a bit harsh if they think you have signed a 
> waiver saying you are filtering and it turns out you are not.
> 
> That's what I recall about the entire process.  Granted this 
> was in 1999, so things may have changed a bit.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 09:53 US/Eastern, Marvin Blackburn wrote:
> 
> > My boss has asked me to look into any "legal" issues with 
> having some 
> > customers in china Connecting to our servers.
> >
> > Not really sure how to start, but would appreciate some pointers if 
> > anyone has any.
> > We use hpux (with ssh) and standard redhat linux servers.
> >
> >
> > ------------------
> > Marvin Blackburn
> > Systems Administrator
> > Glen Raven
> > "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
> >
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