Firewalls: Re: SLIP past the firewall?

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Subject:	Re: SLIP past the firewall?
From:	peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date:	Wed, 19 Apr 1995 09:20:51 -0500 (CDT)
To:	ems @ CS . Princeton . EDU (Ed Strong)
Cc:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<9504182141 . AA27992 @ cs> from "Ed Strong" at Apr 18, 95 05:41:14 pm

> And will enforcing modem callback substantially reduce the risk?

It will at least guarantee that the SLIP connection is made to someone who
has access to the phone number.

How valuable is access behind your firewall? Valuable enough to justify
burglary or tapping into their line? If the answer is "yes", then modem
callback won't help.

References:

SLIP past the firewall?
From: Ed Strong <ems @ CS . Princeton . EDU>

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