In message <498bddac.7060...@eeph.com>, Matthew Kaufman writes: > Mark Andrews wrote: > > WII's should be able to be directly connected to the network > > without any firewall. If they can't be then they are broken. > > As I'm sure you know, you can tell the difference between an Internet > evangelist and someone who mans the support lines by how they feel about > "X should be able to be directly connected to the network without any > firewall". > > "...then they are broken" applied to 4.3 BSD-running VAXen and Sun 3's > in 1988, and neither the frequency of attacks launched nor the number of > exploitable bugs in network stacks or network-packet-ingesting > application programs has gone down since then. > > Matthew Kaufman
I still believe that despite having to deal with all these issues at the time. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: mark_andr...@isc.org
