[email protected] wrote on 03/14/2012 02:57:14 PM:
> From: Cameron Byrne <[email protected]>
> To: Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>,
> Cc: Ashok Narayanan <[email protected]>, Roger Jørgensen
> <[email protected]>, Fred Baker <[email protected]>, "[email protected]
> Group" <[email protected]>, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> Date: 03/14/2012 02:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [homenet] Security goals
> Sent by: [email protected]
>
> Fred made a good assesment that the firewall is just protecting the
> LAN bandwidth from junk. I can buy that. But assuming LAN > WAN in
> capacity, and usually by an order of magnitude, it is still not
> justified IMHO.
If the LAN is wireless (as it almost certainly will be), then there
is no clean way to assert that LAN > WAN and, even more so, any
extra traffic on the WLAN can cause problems w.r.t. power
consumption for devices with batteries.
--Colin
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