>What I need is a way to see "what were router 003's configuration files like >on Last Thursday?" or in the case of cpe equipment, to be notified when a >local "admin" gets in and makes a change. As you mention above, if the
>ISP's phone number changes, I'd like some record of when someone made >the change, and what the change was. >From my perspective of a SOHO basic dial-up firewall user the major advantage of a floppy based system is the write protect tab protects against all changes, presumably from an attacker. A simple power cycle brings back the original configuration--my firewall is only ON when I need internet access. For SOHO users floppy based systems are still important, but tracking changes much less so (use pencil & paper). And if I REALLY wanted to keep a distributed floppy from being changed, I'd use a floppy without a write-protect tab (I can think of 3 ways of doing that). If some "local admin" defeated that--well, he'd only do it ONCE in my company. ;-) I'm not sure what you have is more of a "management" problem than a software problem. It seems you're thinking of an enterprize environment with frequent configuration changes, and in that case it seems like a floppy-based implementation is much less likely. With a much more complex configuration, 24x7 operation and much larger logs, I'd expect it's much more likely comes more storage space--either a small HD or a USB flash drive, etc. So it seems to me you could still be thinking of having more than just a single floppy. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
