On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Vishwanathan K wrote: > Security policies can also be applied to the hosts within the network. But >ultimately, the gateways > are responsible for security of its internal network. Are are obviously from a different universe then the rest of us. In our universe we us an incredibly flexible protocol called IP that is smart enough to know that policy can only be truly effectively done on the end-node and thus does it on the end node. I don't know how you would expect a router to know that an application is requesting a file called README.EML much less that it contains malicious code and that IE5 will execute it without it's users knowledge, except as an after the fact clean-up measure initated by humans. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
