Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6020

From: "John Poltorak" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Is my NIC supported?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:10:01 +0100
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:50:56AM -0600, Will Honea wrote:
> ** Reply to message from "John Poltorak" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
> on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:11:54 +0100
>
>
> > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:40:39PM +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:
> >
> > > I hope you have a good firewall in place !
> >
> > I've never bothered with a firewall - don't see what it gives me.
> >  
>
> You about to get a crash course in security - the hard way!

I have had two OS/2 machines continuously connected to the internet for about
seven years and can't say I am aware of any major problems of running
without a firewall. One of them reached an uptime of around seven months
and then it only needed a reboot because of a power cut.

 
> --
> Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net>


--
John



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