[70387] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Worms versus Bots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu May 13 01:05:13 2004
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:04:32 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Chris Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>,
"Jonathan M. Slivko" <jonathan.slivko@earthlink.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Chris Woodfield wrote:
> I stand corrected, they're out there. I'm advised that
> 3com has a on-NIC firewall product as well.
> However, at $299 and $329 respectively, I don't anticipate
> wide adoption in the consumer market...
No danger, as it is not worth jack as a standalone product; requires a
centralized server to tell it what to do. Not for the consumer market in
the first place.
Even for the corporate market, $300 + the server + managing the whole
enchilada =3D=3D to much $$$ per port.
Michel.
