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January 11th, 2010, 08:13 AM	#1
asegur Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1	Firewall and router I have a simple question. Why should it be necessary to put a firewall protecting a network, if the router is already closing the unnecessary ports? Thanks

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