Re: Next generation of SPAM

From: "Mark Foster" We got spammed by Telecom recently with some product theyre offering over IPNet and ADSL that allows this (or that was how I interpreted it)...

http://www.telecom.co.nz/securebusinessinternet Slowly they are learning about businesses and the Internet :).

The difficulty with firewalling anyone is the media their service is delivered on; for Frame/DDS It might be easier but for Jetstream its not, unless we provide a plug-in-box that gets put in at the clients side.... then youve got the maintenance overhead, etc etc. :P

So whats the alternative, no box? They need one so supply it and make money from it.

And what about layer 2? Only certain people can influence that in most cases...

The "box" we use is a statefull VPN router, L2 tunnel everything to a smart VPN NAS/virtual firewall, move NAT to the back end, it solves a lot of issues like not having L2 from the client and stupid NAT problems with braindead DSL devices. Cheers BG. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog