Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Mark Crean <mcrean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:10 01/06/2002 +0200, Timothy Mason wrote:
> on SMC's Barricade 7004ABR, Mark Crean wrote
> >
> > So far as I can see it does not have
> > a firewall really, it just has NAT and port filtering,
>
> Clarification of this at http://staff.washington.edu/corey/fw/nat.html - no,
> the 'l' didn't get sliced off in the move this time (why are people so touchy
> about anything that could be considered MS? And why do they see the evil
> genius everywhere? Windows under the bed?)
Nothing to do with Microsoft. The same thing would apply to a toaster. It's 
to do with the integrity of a product and whether its makers are prepared 
to stand behind it. None of the cheap domestic routers I've seen contains a 
"firewall" at all in the proper sense of the term, although they'd like you 
to think they do. Too bad the makers can't be shagged to explain things in 
their manuals or even on their websites, but then that might give the game 
away. One of the reason I like Linux is that by and large these things are 
fully explained without an attempt to pull the wool over your eyes. SuSE's 
excellent manuals are a case in point.

:)

Mark