begin  quoting DJA as of Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:37:14AM -0700:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Can't you bring the external interface down, flush your rules, reload
> >>your rules, and bring your external interface back up?
> >
> >They is a *great* idea.  I can take NIC down while I redo firewall!
> >
> >I'll have to research how to minimize time between reactiviating
> >NIC and reactiviating iptables.  That would be useful to know in general
> >because this vulnerability happens on ALL PCs when they reboot!
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but won't the cable come out of the NIC? Is there a 
> reason the NIC _has_ to be connected when you cycle the firewall/box? 
> The one reason I can think of is if you don't have physical access to 
> the box.

ifconfig eth0 down
iptables -F
load_ip_tables
ifconfig eth0 up

I don't understand where the cable comes in. Are we talking about
different things?

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