[146524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arguing against using public IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Tue Nov 15 10:56:13 2011
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:54:50 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <F94EB274-D5AC-4018-927C-97E4F1114643@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
McCall Gabriel <Gabriel.McCall@thyssenkrupp.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you put a router where you needed a firewall, then, this is not a =
> failure of the firewall, but, a
> failure of the network implementor and the address space will not have =
> any impact whatsoever
> on your lack of security.
And the difference between a router and a firewall is ...?
Apparently, one bit.
... JG
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