[wplug-plan] New Meeting room

Brian Sammon Brian_Sammon at yardarm.fac.cs.cmu.edu
Fri Jan 26 08:37:38 EST 2001


> If they want to know what machine will be hooked-up directly to their
> network, it will probably be a linux router.  The purpose would be

Instead of calling it a "router", call it a "firewall".   Besides being 
more accurate, "firewall" is less likely to make the network admins at the 
library (if there are any) nervous.

(You can take down a network with a misconfigured router much more easily 
than with a misconfigured firewall)




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