On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:45:38PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > To be fair here, this could also be accomplished by having to flip a > > physical switch on the router, especially if you did something funky > > like: > > > > [---] push this button for a 5 minute access pass to upload new > > software through physical cable port 1. > > > > More complex, but not unreasonable. > > Well, there is no restriction on putting files on the routing engine's > storage devices (flash and hard drive); it is running OpenSSH, so > scp/sftp work fine, and you can drop to a shell easily. The restriction > is that the kernel won't run unsigned binaries. > > Also, flipping physical switches is pretty much an unreasonable > expectation for core router operation. These are often in other > locations, sometimes other telcos' central offices (where you have to > pay to have "remote hands" do something and then hope they don't screw > it up). You can easily go the entire life of a device where the primary > operators never physically see the device.
Every server I run is like that, but if something is important enough I can remote control a robot over to push the button for me (actually, I think they implement this under the hood by having a human read the ticket I submit and go push the button for me manually, but that could be my imagination. So long as the button gets pushed the black box is functioning) Bron. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
