Just to throw a monky wrench into the discussion... I've heard a number of people stating an equivalence between the terms "DMZ" and "BAUD" in particular this statement:
> No, I'm being accurate- it's like the difference between saying "The true > meaning of baud is bits per second" and saying "The popular meaning of > baud is bits per second." One of the statements is facutally correct, the > other isn't. Your choice of the term true was in error, get over it. Actualy the "accepted" meaning of "BAUD" is the number of state transistions per second "on the wire" which does not nessarly equate to bit's per second. Bit's per second has to do with the intelligence being transmitted. A single state transistion (read modulation state) may encode several bit per state. Thus a 9600 Baud signal may actauly be transmitting 38.2kbps (with an encoding rate of 4 bits per baud). Also this is the "accepted" meaning not nessarly the "true" meaning. Also many folks use Baud and BPS interchangeably so to say "The popular meaning of baud is bits per second." is actualy a true statement. So be careful about your choices of analogies. The term "Baud" has had upwards of 100 years as well as the weight and power of several world wide telecom consortiums to get defined (and see how well that has worked) while DMZ as it pertains to computers has only had 10 or so, a couple of books and this email discussion so if there is confusion about it's "true" meaning it is quite understandable. Lastly in looking at "Building Internet Firewalls, 2ed" Chap. 6 "Firewall Architecture" you'll see that the "Perimeter Network" (also called the DMZ, see page 103) is built in many different ways, including what some here have called a "service network" which leads me to the conclutions that there is no "true" definition (the one given on page 103 is broad enough to cover all the arcitectures) and thus we only have the "accepted" or "popular" one to go by. P.S. The ISA PC Bus architecture used on IBM personal computers since the days of the XT (or even before) was never a "standard" as blessed by the IEEE or other but became so popular that it became a Defacto standard, so don't live or die too much by your definitions or you'll be left in the dust. ********************************************** Tom Arseneault System Admin. Certainty Solutions, formerly Global Networking and Computing (GNAC). "Certainty in an Uncertain World" [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.corp.rwc.crtsol.com ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
