Rowan Reid wrote:
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> Kicks his networking for dummies book out the window
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> 

You really should if the book advocates a one-hub test bed for a Linux 
firewall; that just plain doesn't work. That advice is mentioned several 
times on my site (URL below)....

-Tom
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