[120892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Tue Jan 5 23:05:12 2010
In-Reply-To: <29A54911243620478FF59F00EBB12F4701B27EDF@ex01.drtel.lan>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:04:42 -0600
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
- A firewall is a partition structure that normally consists of two
side walls with a fire retardant material between them.
- A firewall does not prevent a fire.
- A firewall does not extinguish a fire.
- A firewall only delays the propagation of a fire event to the other side.
- The characteristics and properties of each side are independent and
not necessary equal.
- A firewall eventually gets on fire.
- Fire retardant performance is dependent on type of fire and subject
to change without notice.
- A firewall does not prevent against monkeys with matchboxes.
- In the event of a fire locate the nearest exit.
- Use the exit and wait in a safe place for the arrival of trained
personnel to extinguish the fire.
- Clean up the mess and get rid of the monkey.
- Apply to computer networks as necessary.
Cheers
Jorge
