On Sunday 25 May 2008 12:14:44 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/25/08 14:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Saturday 24 May 2008 03:49:53 pm Richard Hector wrote: > >> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better > >>> served by a router doing filtering at the edge of the network. There's > >>> no reason to expose machines directly to the internet. > >> > >> It's perhaps a little excessive to carry a router with you for > >> connecting your laptop to public WiFi, or via a cellphone, for instance. > > > > Don't run services on laptops connected to public wifi or via a cell > > phone. > > It's Unix. You've got to run *some* services!
But they don't have to listen to an external interface. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html
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