RE: hotmail not dealing with ECN

James Sutherland
2001-01-27T23:09:50Z

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.