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Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security

Posted by michael on from the neat-trick dept.

n8willis writes: "There's a great article over at the SysAdmin magazine site that presents a unique approach to improving network security: run your firewall in a halted state. This means runlevel 0; no processes running and no disks mounted, but with packet filtering still on. The author heard a rumor of this capability in the 2.0 series kernels, and he's managed to get it working in 2.2 as well."

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  1. Works for me... by Rorschach1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Though I usually just use the power switch. Can't beat a powered-off firewall for security.

  2. But... by Klowner · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then how would I telnet to my firewall from school?

    *dodges flying shoes*

    ;)

    Klowner

  3. Re:Logging? by Foxman98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    would be fairly easy...

    see we have this thing these days....

    it's called "fire"

    i have portable "fire creation device".

    commonly called a "lighter"

    ;-p

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