Re: [ossig] Firewall

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:06, Dinesh Nair wrote:

> but then floppies are so easily reproducable, and if it's a firewall, once
> booted it would rarely need to be rebooted. this is where _rock-solid_
> performance is needed. :)

Thanks for pointing this out.

Maybe I should stress, that (at least with floppyfw) I need it about
twice per month - whenever Tenaga lets me down:
It does not run on floppy; it runs *from* floppy and then you can remove
that floppy. Advantage of floppy: you set it to 'readonly' and there
will never be a rootkit: Ctrl-Alt-Del and you have your firewall back in
its predefined state.
Dinesh is right, of course: 
dd if=imagefile of=/dev/fd0
and the other way round is the easiest duplication possible.

Uwe


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