The idea is not to install any firewall software on top of those two
specific boxes, but I want to point out that on NT, even if I have (or at
least believe to have) the same installation, that it is not always the
same. Maybe some internal piece of hardware is a little bit different,
which requires another driver.
Of course I can check every file. But there is too much magic in it. Maybe
Win NT is perfect as a desktop station, where you want to control your
toaster and everything. But as a security enforcement device, I simply do
not trust it, because it did fool me too often.
"gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Good point, but you wouldn't be running anything else on the firewall box
> anyway, right?
>
> --gill
>
> -> A customer of mine uses Microsoft DNS as internal DNS Servers. Heavy
> -> Compaq Systems, NT Server 4.0, SP4 and a few hotfixes. If I run
> -> "nmap -sS"
> -> against these boxes on one of them the DNS Server crashes. Not so on an
> -> other one.
> ->
> -> Both boxes were installed the same way, the same CDs, the same
> -> patches by
> -> the same MCSE (Which really knows what he does).
> ->
> -> Now you install firewall software on them. Will it work, will
> -> it not work,
> -> ....?
> ->
> -> have fun ...
> ->
>
>
have fun ...
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