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Old 10-01-2005, 09:14 AM
Volker Birk
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Default Re: Why do I need a software firewall?

E. <bellyup@the.bar> wrote:
> An end user can configure a nat router correctly


Unfortunately, you're not right in this point for most routers I saw.

They're needing extra filtering configuration, and most of them don't
support this in the default configuration, so the user has to configure
and to know, what she/he is doing. :-/

Yours,
VB.
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MAC-Filtering bringt so viel Schutz vor "Hackern" wie Zeitungspapier vor
einer Atombome. (MAC filtering is protecting against "hackers" like newsprint
is protecting against a nuclear bomb)
- Christian Forler in de.comp.security.misc

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