OTOH, you can configure OpenBSD to bridge between two ethernet interfaces while filtering so you can have a invisible firewall that is reconfigurable from it's console (or you could add a 3rd lan card or a serial null to another box for configuration...
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 12:20 p.m. To: Linux-Users Subject: Re: Re: Running Linux Firewalls in a halted state (i.e. runlevel 0!) On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:02:41AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you admin a box with no shell or network services? Locally, or using some form of remote access, e.g. Compaq's Remote Insight, serial console, or PC Weasel hardware. But those solutions can be expensive or cumbersome. I'm not proposing running a system like this, though. Merely pointing out that "runlevel 0" doesn't provide any *additional* security over a system that doesn't have network services running. -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
