>Finally, it seems to me that a firewall is most useful when you can
>draw a line between the "good guys" that are "inside" and the "bad
>guys" that are somewhere "outside". Well, when you have tens of
>thousands of undergrad students, public workstations labs, network
>connections in dorm room, just where do you put the firewall? Who are
More to the point, what good will it do, when a sufficiently
frustrated (yes, and skilled) student or prof can plug in hir modem &
open up a PPP connection?
(No, I'm not suggesting this PPP link could route for the whole campus
net--the route wouldn't be advertised--but it could route to any
machine whose owner wanted it [or where somebody local cracked root],
by doing PPP/TCP.)
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