Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

Sat Apr 19 02:10:45 UTC 2014

On Apr 19, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:

> It's how we provide access control.

Firewalls <> 'access control'.

Firewalls are one (generally, very poor and grossly misused) way of providing access control.  They're often wedged in where stateless ACLs in hardware-based routers and/or layer-3 switches would do a much better job, such as in front of servers:

<https://app.box.com/s/a3oqqlgwe15j8svojvzl>

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