On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:16:07AM +1300, Kerry Baker wrote:

> Basically it describes how to setup a kernel 2.2 Linux system to perform
> packet filtering and NAT in a halted state -- that is, runlevel 0!  No
> processes running, no mounted disks!  Hard to believe.
> This is an article from Sys Admin magazine and I have checked the
> reference to the Firewalls list thread so it appears kosher.
> Apparentely it works because even in a halted state the kernel is still
> loaded in memory.  Makes it kinda hard to hack though.

How is this any harder to hack that a properly secured box at any other
runlevel?

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