[MLB-WIRELESS] Private network? I think not...

[dwayne]

Adrian Close wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, David Arnold wrote:
> 
> > hacking like this, gaming, multimedia, VoIP, etc are all viable
> > on what is essentially a private network.
> 
> The more I think about this (and I've been doing so for some years now)
> the more I am convinced that there is no such thing as a "private
> network".  If you connect it to the Internet, it becomes part of the
> Internet.


no way, we can firewall packets internally so they don't get out on the
net, and restrict what comes in and goes where.

Hell, think "intranet"


> Even if you don't connect it to the Internet (unlikely, in my view), you
> should assume that it is, because it will be...


Connecting it to the internet is entirely seperate from getting it up
and running locally.

Dwayne

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