Scenario: allowing limited access from another company

About this scenario

You can allow certain clients in a partner company to access a predetermined set of URLs on specified servers in your domain. To set this up, you configure your NetCache appliance as an accelerator for a Web server or streaming server. In this case, when NetCache is configured as an accelerator, it is part of the firewall strategy.

Deployment illustrated

In the following illustration, the NetCache appliance in your domain is configured as an accelerator. It appears to the NetCache appliance in the partner's domain as a server.

Requirements

The requirements for configuring the NetCache appliance to enable a partner company to have limited access to your Web server or streaming server are as follows:

Configure the NetCache appliance in your domain as an accelerator.
Set access controls on the accelerator in your domain to control the IP addresses from the partner's domain that can access certain URLs in your domain. Be sure that when you set up your access controls, you are not compromising your firewall security by allowing access from other outside companies.