Re: Automatic shutdown of infected network connections

["Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () techmonkeys org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:12:16AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> What you said is highlighted above.  I don't think I misread it ... I
> may have misunderstood what you meant.  Did you intend to take issue
> _only_ with rate limiting, as opposed to filtering, or are you taking
> issue with the broad filtering described, or both?  i'm trying to
> parse "Why in the world ..." :-)

I was taking issue with the "deny all, allow pop3, smtp, http, .." + rate
limit approach, I did see the 'filtering at the modem' part, perhaps restating
the ability of DOCSIS compliant CPE's was confusing.

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