It's only more of an issue for the IT people to keep stuff out. People don't
really need to firewall their desktops on a local lan, that is firewalled
and probably nat'd anyway.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Win4Lin-users] Xlib: error
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>
> On 01 Aug 2001 16:28:36 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> > Never mind..you guys missed the point I was making. I'm not
> talking about
> > corps.
>
> Neither was I. I have a firewall at home; I have one machine,
> with only
> 1 user ever on it (me). Same for 2 of my friends with cable
> connections
> at home - only ever 1 user; both have firewalls.
>
> > Not to mention if you are in a corp, you probably have one or more
> > machines allocated to you anyway. And only you. So
> firewalling isn't even
> > your issue then. Physical security is.
>
> Firewalling is *more* of an issue in a corporation.
>
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