On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:34, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
I think it does not add so much respective to the present situation and in addition it is unapplicable: there are some ADSL modems who force the computer to use an address in the 10.x.x.x range for interfacing with them and that means that the ethernet card with an address in the 10.x.x.x is in direct contact with the Internet and, according to your proposal, unfirewalled.
You forgot to mention that most home users are in this described situation. Besides that I often use my laptop at the university network with serveral hundred (or maybe thousand?) hosts on the network, all using a private ip-address range... Then I also like to be secured against the evil users on that network.
Martin Sturm