Re: Clueless newbie to firewalls (sygate) seeks info

From: DevilsPGD (ihatespam_at_crazyhat.net)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:18:19 -0600

In message <cu6ce.13066$dh.9573@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com> Leythos
<void@nowhere.lan> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:08:25 -0600, DevilsPGD wrote:
>>
>> In message <uvednfQfKLSHW-3fRVnyhQ@pipex.net> Mike
>> <honey@michaelmoyse.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>FYIS.org/estore wrote:
>>>> Seeking reference material (URL) that might help to explain incoming
>>>> hits like the one below.
>>>> What is all this stuff being sent to me?
>>>
>>>Another prime example of why software firewalls are useless
>>
>> How would a hardware firewall have done any better?
>
>Because a hardware firewall would block it before it even reaches the
>internal network, which eliminates any configuration errors that a user
>might make in their Personal Firewall Application - this would apply for
>those NAT Routers too (which are NOT firewalls).

Yes, and doing so still wouldn't allow the DHCP renew (if that is what
is being blocked) to complete successfully.

While I agree about hardware vs software firewalls, this is not a prime
example. At most this is an example of how poorly written most software
firewalls are, and how difficult to use most hardware firewalls are
(meaning that an end user doesn't interact with them directly, or when
they do, the end user doesn't try to understand) 

-- 
If quitters never win, and winners never quit,
what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?

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