[fw-wiz] Acqusition of time

From: Brian Monkman (bmonkman@comcast.net)
Date: 01/29/03 

From: Brian Monkman <bmonkman@comcast.net>
To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Wed Jan 29 09:45:11 2003

Folks - I'm having a discussion with a few people and we have a
question that we are interested in getting comments from the list on.

Are there any situations where a firewall's acqusition of time
could/should be from a network time source? Not necessarily a public
source, it could be an "internal" time source.

If there are situations where this makes sense, should these same
firewalls have battery backed up clocks on board or would that be
unnecessary?

Brian

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