David Lang wrote:
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> I have several firewalls in use running on Linux for the following
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> 4. with the 2.0 kernel series if you don't need proxys you can setup a
> firewall that configures itself and then halts the system. The kernel
> will
> continue to run and move your packets, but there is no userspace
> running
> for someone to crack into, with the 2.2. kernels that is not possible
> now,
> but people are working to re-enable it (the 2.2 kernel decides that if
> init dies the system needs to reboot and does so immediatly)
This is very interesting. I have not heard of it. How do you enable
it?
allen
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