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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. Did this accidentally once.... by ManualCrank+Angst · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had my server running the firewall. Needed to format a floppy. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda.....Oops. Say, honey, you better check your email one last time and then I'll reinstall the server.

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  2. Re:brilliant! by mekkab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is the above message off topic?!

    I hate moderators. I can't wait until I'm a moderator.

    Not only is the above either A) contradictory or B) a great example of my own self loathing, but ITS OFF TOPIC.

    please moderate me as such.

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  3. MOD THIS UP! by schroet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD THIS UP!