Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-12 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). Once it boots have it set up a big RAM disk. Then it would run the appropriate mknod commands to setup /dev and copy all the files to the

Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 7/10/01 11:35:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). Once it boots have it set up a big RAM disk. Then it

Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Todd Littlefield wrote: Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). A system based on read-only media will generally be much harder to compromise then one with writable

firewall feasibility question

2001-07-10 Thread Todd Littlefield
Hello, A friend and I were discussing possible ways to secure a linux system from getting hacked. We came up with a couple of methods that might stop most script kiddies, but an experienced hacker would still be able to work around. I was wondering what others thought of them.