> > In your world DoS traffic would be free to roam the networks as it pleased > without being throttled sensibly at ingress? > Throttling is a different from blocking. Sensible traffic management does not break applications nor network transparency. You are free to choose when to forward each packet.
> Or the dumb [wannabee] IT guy runs some telnet/ftp/filesharing service without > passwords and its ok for the whole world to access the private system coz its > his fault? > This means your application security infrastructure already failed if some filesharing application is running on a machine which also has access to data in the internal disk shares. Pete
