On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:53:08 PST Dave Thaler wrote: > On a non-constrained device, this can be handled by a host firewall, for > applications that can't handle it themselves. But it's much more efficient > for the app (or iotivity in this case) to be configurable itself rather > than relying on a firewall to compensate. For anyone who wants a much > deeper discussion on that topic, see IAB RFC 7288 > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7288).
I don't expect constrained devices to need this, since they often only have one interface anyway. As for the bigger ones, yes, there should be a firewall. But "defense in depth" comes to mind too :-) -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ iotivity-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev
