Andrew M Hoerter wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Greg Schmidt wrote:
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>
>>(Remember that every firewall is a router, but not every router is a
>>firewall.)
>
>
> Not necessarily, some firewalls are bridges instead. Although this is
> purely a pedantic digression.
>
>
Good point. I often enjoy pedantic digressions.
I was thinking of firewalls at layer 3 and up. However, you are correct
to note there are opportunities at layer 2.
If Mr. Jahn plugs into a network admined by folks who are very paranoid,
he will need to find a good MAC address for his NIC to pretend to be too.
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