Essentially, yes.
Real firewalls have a few other capabilities (closing ports, eliminating
some file types, etc.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Duncan Yoyo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] External Firewalls
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ellen Rains Harris <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At home they're probably not, esp. if you have a NAT router (most of them
are).
In a business, they're desireable because it can act both as a wall and
as
a gateway. Keeps bad guys out, lets good guys in.
Isn't a NAT router a low end firewall? It keeps out random attacks.
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John Duncan Yoyo
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