I work with 5 Cisco certified network technicians. Guess who they come to when they need something done.
It is also interesting to note that I am the only "tech" person in our office who does not have any Cisco certs. When we recently moved our entire network to a different network block and installed a Cisco 7206 core router to replace our old 7500 core router, none of them were involved. I was. In fact, I am the one who does most of our router configuration for our clients as well. One of our Certified techs will never, no matter how many times I explain it, understand the difference between what the DNS server does and what the web servers do. Another will never understand when to use a cross-over cable as opposed to straight-through. Certs mean jack shit. Anyone with a book, a couple hundred bucks, and some time can have a cert. If this guy thinks you can be owned just by somebody knowing your IP, ask him to show you how. It sounds to me like this guy is talking out of his ass. TimH On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:54:55 -0600 Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a person who is a Cisco certified network guy tell me unix boxes are > easier to get into than windows. He's very knowledgeable and says he's one > of 5000 certified in the world. I don't know if he's worked in Linux or not. > My box at work is a Debian GNU/Linux box and he knows the ip address of it. > He said a hacker could gain access to it if they know the ip address. I said > I have ipchains installed. My question is that enought or do I have to close > down the ports too. He thinks someone could gain access to my box even > though I'm running Linux with ipchains. He ruffled my feathers and I don't > like it, especially when I don't know how to respond to someone who might > know. What I'm saying is my box is on a private network 192.168.x.x which > other people on that network who I don't know get on. What can I do to > protect my box besides turning it off at night or unplugging it from the > network. Any links or pointers would be helpful. > > Thanks > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- feelin' hella good, so let's just keep on hackin' _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
