On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized
> > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter
> > on funny IP options.
>
> That's madness. If you have to implement your firewalling on every host,
> what do you do when someone wants to run a new OS? Forbid it?
Of course. Then you find out about some new problem you want to block, so
you spend the next week reconfiguring a dozen different OS firewalling
systems. Hrm... I'll stick with a proper firewall, TYVM!
James.
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