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

Fri May 24 17:51:19 UTC 2002

Most flash media includes read only 'tabs' similar to the legacy floppy
variety. Steven may have hit on an interesting solution here...

-Al

-----Original Message-----
From: E.B. Dreger [mailto:eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:38 PM
To: FiXXiT at off-road.com
Cc: Dan Hollis; Steven J. Sobol; Vinny Abello; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

JKS> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
JKS> From: Jason K. Schechner

JKS> > Why would you want to do this?
JKS> 
JKS> Logging.  If a h at xx0r cracks your box he can't erase
JKS> anything that's already been written there.  Often it takes

BSD enforces append-only when running proper securelevel.  AFAIK,
Linux lacks this attribute, and root can disable the so-called
"immutable" attrib.

JKS> a physical change (jumper, dipswitch, etc) to change from
JKS> write-only to read-only making it pretty tough for the
JKS> h at xx0r to cover his steps.

Why not log to an external bastion host?

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