Hi Charles/Skywing, is Verizon filter the unsolicated inbound traffic on the firewall or on the border router?
Regards, Steven Lee -----Original Message----- From: Charles Wyble [mailto:char...@thewybles.com] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:09 AM To: Skywing Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Do we still need Gi Firewall for 3G/UMTS/HSPA network ? Yep verizon does indeed filter all unsolicated inbound traffic to the EVDO network. It can be a blessing or a curse. :) Skywing wrote: > Verizon filters unsolicited inbound traffic for their EVDO customers in my > experience. > > - S > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@cisco.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 09:32 > To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: Do we still need Gi Firewall for 3G/UMTS/HSPA network ? > > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia) wrote: > >> Please share your thought and thanks in advance :) > > No, IMHO. Most broadband operators don't insert firewalls inline in > front of their subscribers, and wireless broadband is no different. > > The infrastructure itself must be protected via iACLs, the various > vendor-specific control-plane protection mechanisms, and so forth, but > inserting additional state in the middle of everything doesn't buy > anything, and introduces additional constraints and concerns. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@cisco.com> // +852.9133.2844 mobile > > Our dreams are still big; it's just the future that got small. > > -- Jason Scott > > >
