firewall?

[John]

Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:48:46AM +0100, Benjamin Edwards said
> 
>>I think the is kind of important, even XP now comes with a enabled firewall.
> 
> 
> What would it actually *do*?  There are no services listening on
> external interfaces by default.
> 
>

Someone else wants to open a VNC connexion between home and office. A 
firewall could limit visibility of the open port(s) to only those sites 
allowed to connect.

The Billion routers at work can't do that, ports are either open or closed.