On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:06:48AM -0800, Darren Ehmke wrote:
> I read your reply to another question, in which you stated that the Linux 2.0.x
>kernel
> has the ability to turn off the operating system, but leave the kernel running. How
>is
> this done? Or more of, where can I find documentation to do this? Thanks in
>advance.
Even if the kernel is halted and there are no user process running the
interrupt handler are still doing their work in receiving and queueing ip
packets.
But this reduces the usefullness of a linux box very mch, since you can only
used it as a (stateless) packet filter with no additional application level
proxy capabilities. No signalling, no allerting, no logging and so on. This
is not what most ppl will expect from a firewall.
> >>if you use linux you will want to be careful when you install it to strip
> >>things down. A full firewall install including perl should be in the
> >>40-50MB range for slackware and 90MB range for redhat (redhat installs a
> >>_lot_ of libraries that I have not jet had time to weed through and
> >>eliminate)
The Linux Router Projects delivers you a single floppy disk. And there are
some other neat little linux distributions. 50-90MB is a lot of unnecessary
bloat...
Greetings
Bernd
PS: http://sites.inka.de/lina/freefire-l/
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Bernd Eckenfels
The Freefire Project
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