Automatic Firewall

[Alexey Eremenko]

by Francois Marinez:

>I think it does not add so much respective to the present situation
>and in addition it is unapplicable: there are some ADSL modems who
>force the computer to use an address in the 10.x.x.x range for
>interfacing with them and that means that the ethernet card with an
>address in the 10.x.x.x is in direct contact with the Internet and,
>according to your proposal, unfirewalled.

I think there is absolutely NO problems here, since if you get 10.x.x.x
from your ADSL modem, it means, that modem takes over NAT functionality,
so a hacker can NOT attack you in that case. He can attack only your modem.
 
I really don't understand why you dislike the Automatic Firewall idea...

 -Fenix*NBK*


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