At Stanford in a non-academic IT department, not long after this was published, we had to beg for departmental firewalls to protect laptops, desktops, and "serv

At Stanford in a non-academic IT department, not long after this was published, we had to beg for departmental firewalls to protect laptops, desktops, and "servers" (but not so much for proper servers). Every machine was essentially on the upper-cased then Internet with a globally-routable IPv4 with almost no Layer 2 IP ACLs. That didn't work so well with negligently-vulnerable Microsoft OS and software. The plus side was that Cisco gear was the standard networking stuff and relatively low cost for hardware and feature packs. Curiously, the housing draw (lottery) was run on a BSD box. About half of the department ran on top of FileMaker Pro (FMP), which ran on Xserves. It was the Windows 2000 and XP/2003 Server machines that were the biggest pains.