On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:26:38PM -0500, Allen Jantzen wrote:
> I really have to thank you for pointing this out. This is _very_
> interesting.
>
> With a well-designed set of firewall rules, it seems like this can give
> you a _very_ secure firewall. Do you suppose this was an oversight on
> the part of the folks who do linux distributions on which this works?
In fact as I recall, this was first reported as a security _hole_ as people
normally think that when a computer is shut down, then network connectivity
doesn't exist either (concerns regarding a non-secure machine connected to
the Internet being turned off, but still routing packets).
It's good to see a security hole turned into a security feature :-)
Nice bit of lateral thinking...
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
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