* 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
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
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
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
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
> > 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
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
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
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.
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On 2/24/07, Alexander Klauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just read that article and I'm not entirely convinced of
the theoretical security implications stated, in particular,
what does the author mean by "having removed all process space"?
I'm actually not doing this for the improved securi
On 2/24/07, Jonas Andradas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Ludo,
as far as I know, when a system (at least in Debian) gets its IP through
DHCP, it does use a daemon (dhclient or dhclient3, if I am not mistaken).
Thus, when this IP is freed, probably you loose the gateway's connectivity
to the Inte
Ludo schrieb:
Hi all,
I'm trying to run a halted Debian firewall, as described in
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm .
I've just read that article and I'm not entirely convinced of
the theoretical security implications stated, in particular,
what does the author mean by
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