In message <498BDDAC.7060405@eeph.com>, Matthew Kaufman writes:
Mark Andrews wrote:
WII's should be able to be directly connected to the network without any firewall. If they can't be then they are broken.
As I'm sure you know, you can tell the difference between an Internet evangelist and someone who mans the support lines by how they feel about "X should be able to be directly connected to the network without any firewall".
"...then they are broken" applied to 4.3 BSD-running VAXen and Sun 3's in 1988, and neither the frequency of attacks launched nor the number of exploitable bugs in network stacks or network-packet-ingesting application programs has gone down since then.
Matthew Kaufman
I still believe that despite having to deal with all these issues at the time. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org