Cisco Pixes are the only firewalls Cisco delivers, in my opinion. A normal router is only a packetfilter at the most, unless you would be running a Firewall feature set on your router..... And yes, this is a firewall list but on the other hand, to connect to the internet you need some kind of router, so it is natural that router questions are being asked too. Especially because also routers have vulnerabilities, including Cisco routers..... Greetz, Rene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org> To: "Brian Ford" <brford@cisco.com> Cc: <Firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET>; <dgillett@deepforest.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:58 AM Subject: Re: cisco reboot > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Brian Ford wrote: > > > Regarding "which counter", this isn't open source code. You and Dave have > > no idea as to which counter got a bad value because you have no idea what > > the code base looks like. You could spend months or years and never > > re-create this fault. > > Sigh... You can assume that my 30 years (!) of assembler language > programming counts for something, but again I'm willing to be corrected > by a Cisco employee. > > > The reality is that this as probably just a static discharge from the > > serial line (or other temporary environmental problem) that caused the > > router to corrupt some bits and power cycle. And the router did power > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Yep. > > > Isn't this a "firewall" list. > > So, aren't Ciscoes supposed to be used as firewalls, then? > > -- > Dave Horsfall CL VK2KFU dave@esi.com.au Ph: +61 2 9906 3377 Fx: * 9906 3468 > (Unix Guru) Pacific ESI, Unit 22, 8 Campbell St, Artarmon, NSW 2065, Australia > > - > [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]