[COLUG] Firewalls Poll

[Joseph Fannin]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:23:25 -0700 (PDT), Keith Ward <rkward at yahoo.com> wrote:

My 486 firewall/router has outlasted most of my other computers,
despite being old when I got it; I see no need to replace it.

Traffic control became a must once my girlfriend discovered she could
download TV shows from the Internet; without it even DNS often
wouldn't resolve.

I haven't invested in wireless yet, but I'm planning on requiring the
wireless nodes to go through VPN software of some sort to get anywhere
off the wireless.  Maybe IPSec will be mature enough for this, by then
(I have to draw my own conclusions on what 'mature enough' means.)

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Joseph Fannin
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