[111458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Feb 6 01:50:43 2009
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:50:20 -0800
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902060036.n160aPb5099288@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: matthew@eeph.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Mark Andrews wrote:
> WII's should be able to be directly connected to the network
> without any firewall. If they can't be then they are broken.
As I'm sure you know, you can tell the difference between an Internet
evangelist and someone who mans the support lines by how they feel about
"X should be able to be directly connected to the network without any
firewall".
"...then they are broken" applied to 4.3 BSD-running VAXen and Sun 3's
in 1988, and neither the frequency of attacks launched nor the number of
exploitable bugs in network stacks or network-packet-ingesting
application programs has gone down since then.
Matthew Kaufman
