3 Sep
2003
3 Sep
'03
6:41 p.m.
Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed clients to push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic and filter unneeded things.
Nice idea. I am sure clients will figure that out. As quickly as they caught on to 'Windows Update' and 'Setting up a VCR clock'. Lets face it: Some things are better left to the "experts".
If the clients don't figure it out, they get the default, which can be as permissive or as restrictive as make sense for people who can't figure out how to control filtering. DS