Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

advantage being if you get owned, you burn a new cd and reboot.  Since
its all a read-only filesystem that loads into memory anything an
attacker does is temporary.

-miah

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:00:02AM -0700, Eric wrote:
> 
> --- Bob George <mailings02 at ttlexceeded.com> wrote:
> 
> > miah wrote:
> > 
> > > doesnt smoothwall do all this already?
> > 
> > It certainly does the lightweight firewall portion.
> > After a quick skim 
> > of the website, I'm not under the impression it's
> > meant as "run from CD".
> 
> Hi.  I am currently using smoothwall and it's very
> easy to configure and a real pleasure to use.  Last
> night I was trying to get my buddies crappy dell
> wireless router to work.  2 hours and all I could get
> was the wireless part to work but not the ethernet.  I
> almost lost my mind.  I have also owned linksys
> products and like them for what they are.  So ah, why
> do you want to run off a cd?  Is the security
> advantage that great?  (I have not tried using
> smoothwall this way and I'm not sure if you can.) 
> Good Luck!
> 
> =====
> D. Eric Chadbourne
> http://caffeinated.homelinux.net/
> "Shadowman doesn't know what the heck
> you just said, but you moved him."
> - Shadowman.
> 
> 
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