[68835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewall opinions wanted please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Mar 17 15:09:40 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:02:58 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Rachael Treu <rara@navigo.com>
Cc: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040317172412.GC8114@navigo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Rachael Treu wrote:
> _Everyone_ (network connected) should have a firewall. My grandma should
>
>have a firewall. Nicole, holding dominion over this business network and
>its critical infrastructure, should _definitely_ have a firewall. ;)
>
>
>
No, the applications should accept only authorized connections. If that
would be the case, there would be no need to filter at packet level.
Pete
