Router/Firewall Recommendation

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jason Dixon
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Router/Firewall Recommendation
> 
> On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> 
> > I don't particularly have respect for someone who decides to call
> > someone
> > else a moron,  I lose respect for them very fast and any follower who
> > thinks
> > that it is okay for them to disrespect someone because they are
> > perceived to
> > have earned some badge of honor.  The guy maybe great, but I didn't
> > endorse
> > wireless routers in my post, in fact I put them down, but he didn't
> > read the
> > post carefully and opened his mouth and inserted foot.  Wireless
> > networks
> > can be penetrated, but it is not trivial.  You need to know where it
> > is and
> > come into range of the transmission limitations to start out with, you
> > have
> > to be able to select that wireless network out of all of the ones that
> > are
> > up and running.  Cell phones, for example can be compromised, but you
> > don't
> > compromise them by selecting a particular phone, you select all
> > transmission
> > and throw the ones away that you are not interested in, but you can do
> > this
> > because they use a base station for transmissions.  Wireless networks
> > are
> > very limited in their transmission range so you can't just say I'm
> > going to
> > take your signal, you have to get close.  Someone mentioned directional
> > antennae, but two way radios have directional antennae and I can't
> > talk to
> > someone in Germany with a two way radio.  So, to get respect you need
> > to be
> > respectful, to get disrespect then open your mouth and call someone a
> > moron.
> 
> How do you manage to talk so much and say so little?
By coming in contact with you.
> 
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> Jason Dixon, RHCE
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net
> 
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