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Re: Worms versus Bots

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Tue May 11 11:40:34 2004

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:38:33 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <409A88C1.8030505@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



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I think running two separate computers is a wee bit of overkill...

A better solution would be a NIC with a built-in SI firewall...manageable f=
rom a host=20
app, but physically separate from the OS running on the PC.

-C

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:49:37PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
>=20
> Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
>=20
> >
> >you can easily fit an entire router into a PC's slimline
> >case and the router can include a complete SI Firewall
> >capability. The PC BIOS will allow the initial SI Firewall
> >config to be done before booting the PC.
> >=20
> >
>=20
> They got to it before you did; http://www.giwano.com/
>=20
> Pete
>=20

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