Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Emanuele Rocca
* Ludo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-02-25 1:07 +0100]: > I'm actually not doing this for the improved security in ithis > particular case. As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of > room/pc's. So the gateway in this case is just another pc, and using > this idea I wouldn't have to boot this

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Alexander Klauer
Hi Ludo, Ludo schrieb: My understanding (which might be wrong) was that once the kernel launches the INIT task, the whole runlevel and boot/shutdown stuff is a user space thing. What do you mean by that? Does that change the situation? It doesn't change the situation for you, because you'r

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread korozion
Why not use something like Coyote firewall, it's a floppy-based firewall/router. No hard drives required and you can set the floppy to write protect or remove it once you've written the configuration and started the box. Maybe it's not quite what a halted system is, but seems like it's close

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
hi! what about a linksys wrt54gl? ~ 60€. install openwrt, read the docs (most is in the wiki) and off you go .. with ~ 9W power consumption. n. > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:07:51AM +0100, Ludo wrote: > > As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway > > in this case is j

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Lothar Ketterer
Hi, On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:07:51AM +0100, Ludo wrote: > As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway > in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have > to boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's mostly > to avoid running the ga

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> > I'm actually not doing this for the improved security in ithis particular > > case. As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway > > in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have to > > boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's m

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Holger Schletz
Hi, > I'm actually not doing this for the improved security in ithis particular > case. As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway > in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have to > boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's most

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Sam Couter
Ludo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have to boot this > pc for > no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's mostly to avoid running the > gateway, > because of the added noise, etc. I may have missed some part of the discussion here, but... t

Re: halted firewalls

2007-02-25 Thread Sam Couter
Ludo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How else does the IP address get released? DHCP leases have a limited lifetime. If they're not renewed by the client within that time they're considered expired. -- Sam Couter | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Open