On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:22:40 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote
Ewen McNeill wrote:
My point was that you can get 75% of the immediate benefit of a "newbie applicance network" right now simply by firewalling customer connections at the edge -- and that if you do, please provide an opt-out mechanism. (I'd really prefer that it wasn't necessary to buy, say, a E1 link (wholesale connectivity) in order to get reasonably unfiltered access. And tunnelling everywhere sucks.)
Yes, but I have my doubts as to how such a "NewbieNet" would be implemented in a profit-driven environment. I would expect the "opt- out" unfiltered 'Net would cost more and be packaged as a "business class service" or similar.
Agreed.
All I'm saying is, be careful what you ask for, because you may get it.
AGREED!!!
OTOH, customers on metered connections really should have some way of controlling the traffic, e.g. through a Web interface that allows you to set things at a central firewall. It shouldn't be that the only way to control traffic to your connection is to switch off the CPE.
AA GG RR EE EE DD !! !! !! I've suggested this idea before. I'd like to be able to set up blocks to ip addresses from getting to my network and have those blocks unset them self automatically based on a value I set (eg 24 hours - when the hacker gives up and goes off to hit someone else). Cheers Don -- Don Gould Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your community!