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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. You could try something even more secure... by Pengo · · Score: -1, Troll


    http://www.openbsd.org

  2. Re:ahh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, except the 'anti linux' posts are usually manipulative lies and dont really have much to do with reality. Why not go jack off to your fucking revolting picture there on your user info... I was hoping for porn. What a bunch of shit, no pun intended... definitely a loser, you.