Just one question ... 

What's the advantage of having the Firewall/NAT rules written on a CD-R media? 

If an attacker can modify the rules, it's very probable that (s)he can stop 
the Firewall/NAT or even change the source of the rules.


Demetrio Carrión


> > Should the NAT and Firewall rules be written and maintained on CD-R media
> so
> > a malicious attacker cannot hide rule changes?  Should the firewall be
> > re-initialized on a schedule to ensure the live rules are those from the
> > read-only media?
> 
> That's not a bad idea... I have never tried it so I don't know what
> problems you may run into.



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