[120926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (juttazalud)
Wed Jan 6 08:26:00 2010
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:25:03 +0100
From: juttazalud <ju@netzwerklabor.at>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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am Mittwoch, 06. J=E4nner 2010 um 13:43 schrieb Roland Dobbins:
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 5:38 PM, William Waites wrote:
>> A properly configured firewall will prevent latter.
> So will stateless ACLs, running in hardware capable of handling mpps.
How do you define "firewall"?
I remember something like "a security concept, comprising a device or
set of devices designed to prevent unauthorized access to a computer
system or network". ACLs would then just be part of the firewall
concept.
cheers,
jutta
