Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

Fri May 24 05:08:44 UTC 2002

> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:52:14 -0400
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

> I've heard tell that a good way to secure a Linux box that's
> doing this is to have it boot, set up the interfaces, set up
> iptables, and then do a quick /sbin/halt - if you fail to
> 'ifconfig down' the interfaces on the way down, the kernel will
> happily forward the packets while being immune to exploits

[ snip ]

Hmmmm.  A most interesting thought.  Even if that doesn't work,
one could modify /sbin/init to suit one's needs; several variants
for embedded systems already exist.

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Eddy

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