Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 02:19 AM 1/30/96 +1100, Robert Elz wrote:

> You're expecting me to obtain one of those things for my system
> at home?   And assuming that password type capable access
> protection is the only kind of protection I care about.

Well, not exactly. I was thinking along the lines of something a little
larger than 'home' access.  :-)

> Lets be a little reasonable please - access filters aren't
> dead yet (I would like to see them vanish, and I would hope that
> one day that might happen, today isn't that day).
>
> I will believe this has happened when cisco no longer support
> packet filtering in their routers.
>
> kre

My point was that filtering on source addresses is not exactly the
most secure method of access control.

- paul