On Wed, 22 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Quite frankly, I've no idea why you're quite so dogmatically against > having firewalling tools. What are we accomplishing with this "firewalling" argument? I think it's pretty clear that we'd like the HURD to support these things (routing, packet filtering) eventually; and it's also clear that it's up to the USER to decide how to use them. There's no need for us to decide whether it makes more sense to have dedicated firewalls, or "firewalls" on every machine, or no firewalls at all: the users of the HURD should be able to decide what they want to do, and do it. It is, after all, about freedom and choice and configurability. I think the main point of this argument should be that the HURD doesn't yet have firewalling support, but (a) that doesn't mean we can't make releases, and (b) we'd very much like to see support for these networking features as soon as possible, but we're just not there yet. By releasing the HURD to as many interested developers as possible is probably the best way to get these things implemented as well. --tobin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]