If your are interested in non hackable router/firewalls look at the Linux Router project which is configured on a floppy and loaded into memory http://master-beta.linuxrouter.org:8080/
-----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Nilsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 11:57 a.m. To: 'Wayne Rooney'; 'Matthew Gregan'; 'Linux-Users' Subject: RE: Running Linux Firewalls in a halted state (i.e. runlevel 0!) Basically their isn't anything to "hack" the only option would be denial of service attacks against any bugs in the kernel or overloading resources eg CPU, bandwidth. -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 11:37 a.m. To: Matthew Gregan; Linux-Users Subject: Re: Running Linux Firewalls in a halted state (i.e. runlevel 0!) -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux-Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Running Linux Firewalls in a halted state (i.e. runlevel 0!) >How do you get a shell, or exploit buffer overflows, on a box that isn't >running a shell server nor any other network services? These are good questions which I am not going to answer. I was just trying to help you out with your question of "How is this any harder to hack that a properly secured box at any other runlevel?" Wayne
