Re: Linksys router as Firewall

From: Robert de Brus (de_brus_at_h)
Date: 07/18/03 

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:57:51 +1000

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In news:05vfhvsaruk101c9bh0gjdur3fj1qupav2@4ax.com,
Michael Ferguson <mcf@augustmail.com> typed
|| On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:10:15 +1000, "Robert de Brus" <de_brus@h o t m
|| a i l.com> wrote:
||
||| The term firewall comes from the automotive industry. It's built
||| into the car between the engine bay and the driver's compartment to
||| stop the driver getting burned in the case of an engine fire.
||
|| Actually, the term firewall comes from the housing industry. :) In
|| earlier times, houses were built side-by-side with no breathing room
|| separating them. Unfortunately, this meant that if any house caught
|| on fire, the entire block (or city) could burn to a crisp. To prevent
|| this kind of catastrophe, builders would erect thick brick "fire
|| walls" between the houses in the hopes that it would help prevent the
|| spread of the fire.

Yep, of course.

But the point is the same. :) 

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