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Clarify 'switch' in the Fool's firewall article

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Tom Eastep 2010-11-27 11:01:20 -08:00
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<title>Definition</title>
<para>Occasionally, we hear from someone who has cabled his firewall's
external and internal firewall interfaces to the same switch. I call this
configuration <firstterm>The Fool's Firewall</firstterm>.</para>
external and internal firewall interfaces to the same unmanaged switch (or
mis-configured managed switch). I call this configuration <firstterm>The
Fool's Firewall</firstterm>.</para>
<para>When the external interface supports broadcast, this configuration
has two very bad drawbacks:</para>