[125666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Apr 20 22:40:18 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:39:35 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> said:
> Windows XP SP2 and later has the concept of different "zones" (or whatever
> it's called) where it'll allow things from the local subnet but not from
> outside of it, if you tell it so. I know people who configure their
> network printers without default gw to handle their spotty security.
That still requires someone to configure a printer, while most just plug
it in and let it DHCP. Also, I needed to update the firmware on a
network printer once, and it had to have a gateway because it downloaded
the firmware directly.
Heck, I have filled up a 5 port switch in my entertainment center now
with TiVo, Xbox, Blu-Ray, and TV (plus back-haul); all of those use the
Internet and so should have the protection of a firewall at the gateway
(and of course the Xbox requires UPnP for some games). The TiVo,
Blu-Ray, and possibly TV run Linux, which may be somewhat safer, but
Linux has had (and will have) bugs too.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
