Re: Security benefits of hardware firewalls
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Re: Security benefits of hardware firewalls

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 19:18:13 CEST



Sol <revolution_158@hotmail.com> wrote:


> Leythos wrote:


> > I like the units that have been certified as a firewall


> That intrigues me.



You don't need to. Just read RFC 2978. From there:



| A "firewall" is an


| agent which screens network traffic in some way, blocking traffic it


| believes to be inappropriate, dangerous, or both.



Yours,


VB.



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Received on Mon May  1 01:06:18 2006