> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Laflamme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Firewalls? > > > Post, Mark K wrote: > > >I would also echo Adam's sentiment about keeping the number of > >point-to-point links per guest small. It becomes a > management nightmare > >more than anything. From your question, I'm assuming you're > not up to z/VM > >4.3 then? > > > > > > Heck, no, we just went to z/VM 4.4. > > However, and promise not to giggle if you're going to read the rest of > this, our network security folks don't want GuestA talking to GuestB > directly if they can help it; they'd sleep better at night if > they could > sniff each packet and be sure nothing hinky is going on. I'd > love to use > a Hypersockets LAN, but that wouldn't allow that. (Never mind that two > AIX systems on the same subnet talk directly without being > vetted by the > firewall; this is Linux, and the network security folks are convinced > that's less secure than our existing platforms.) > > Sigh, > Nick
Maybe the network security folks are correct http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13420
