In the profound words of Chris Ceykovsky: > > I agree and disagree with your statement. A lot of home users have > firewalls these days. Does not matter if it is a Check Point firewall, or a > Symantec Personal Firewall. Perhaps a lot do, but I'd wager that many times more DON'T have anything... > The problem here is that the firewall is most > likely going to be after the dsl modem. > > Inet-->DSL modem-->firewall-->computer > > So either way the firewall would not be able to stop something from > accessing the dsl modem...would it? Yep, very true, too... The only place a firewall would do any good at all would be IN the so-called "modem" (I really hate the misuse that poor word is seeing these days), or somewhere before it, in your ISP's neck of the network... So, you're right: it was a bogus suggestion, from the outset, even if one were to take it at face value... But, I still think that even if it were possible, it's a poor (and dangerous) point of view to suggest relying on one piece of software/firmware/whatever to correct another's flaws, instead of just fixing those flaws... -- ||========================================================================|| || Rob Seace || URL || rasat_private || || AKA: Agrajag || http://www.magrathea.com/~ras/ || robat_private || ||========================================================================|| "The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system." - THGTTG
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