Re: Stand Alone DHCP Servers and Windows 2000

I did not say firewalls stop viruses. I said a firewall *limits the scope
of things a virus can attack*. All the firewall does is narrow an attack
profile.

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Will

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
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"Will" <westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For this particular network, both the clients and the domain controller
are
protected internal networks behind a firewall. Neither is exposed to
the
outside. We generally put a firewall between our internal clients and
the
domain controller just to limit the scope of things that a virus can
attack
directly on the domain controller.

Firewalls don't stop viruses.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com




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