[rhn-users] Off-line update

[Bob Gorman]

At 01:07 PM 3/4/2004, rhn-users List Readers at Axoria Ltd wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Further to my previous comments... The way I do it is to build the
>machine on my LAN, which is behind a NAT gateway as well as a typical
>firewall. By configuring the NAT gateway and firewall to restrict
>traffic to RHN (by IP address) ... -- if I've overlooked
>something that they can identify, then that'd be valuable for me and
>others, I'm sure.

up2date can also be run through a proxy server. The value here is that the source system does not directly exchange traffic over the internet with the RHN.