> I've seen the "shared /etc" concept kicked around so much, I'm sure there mus
> t be a way to do it, but there's at least one file (mtab), that normally gets
>  updated at boot time.  The routers and
> firewalls I've seen usually load the root fs into a ramdisk.  Since they boot
>  the same every time, it doesn't matter if changes are lost.

Devil Linux and Guardian run from CD. They're too big to run in RAM on anything
_I_ would use for a firewall.

Both can save/restore configuration information on floppy, and this controls
what's run.



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