On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:47:09AM +0100, Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
> Oh boy, I'm sorry for the religious flame war / thread I caused on this
> list.
Well, it seemed reasonably civilised (and useful) to me <g>
[..]
> However, in the typical reality setup, you have one or few sensible admins
> and hundreds of small machines in the network with people installing and
> setting up application on it without a clue (and without permission). The
> firewall enlarges (at least to some extent) the security of the network
> even under this conditions.
Yes, in real world situations I can see that the PIX device could have uses,
to protect (sub)nets of machines that can't or won't get secured. Just so
long as the users understand that they may well dip out on reliability (and
maybe performance), and that they can wave goodbye to network level crypto.
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sword wielding purple fish glued to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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