This doesn't protect you from attacks that originate from with the MSU
network. That's where most of the ones that I log come from.
Jesse Howard
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-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lee Duynslager
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: BlackICE
> Putting a "firewall" on the machine that winds up protecting
> itself is something of a bad idea. A firewall really wants to
> be an entity which has all the packets in the network flowing
> past it, where it makes determinations about them.
I agree with this. I think that the M.S.U network security should have
a
firewall in place for the whole university, at the connection to
Internet
and Internet 2.
Lee Duynslager
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