Bootable CD w/OS for firewall

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

right, there would have to be a new release in order for that to do
anything, chances are, your your cd-based os is getting owned, its
something there is probably a fix for already.  And if not, I'd be
bitching at smoothwall for not releasing a fix, but they seem to be
pretty good about it.

-miah

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:26:32AM -0700, Eric wrote:
> --- mimiahjjjjohnsonunrise-lilinuxom> wrote:
> 
> > advantage being if you get owned, you burn a new
> cdcd> and reboot.  Since
> > its all a read-only fifilesystemhat loads into
> > memory anything an
> > attacker does is temporary.
> 
> Forgive my ignorance as I've never used one of these,
> but why burn a new cdcdunless of course there's a new
> version) why not just use the same cdcdnd reinstall? 
> What about updates?  Do you have to take your router /
> firewall down and and reinstall each time there's an
> update?  That would suck.  If this is ununnecessarynd
> updates are stored on the hard drive, then why use a
> cdcdt all?  mmmmmnnn.  SmSmoothwalls such a breeze to
> use while still offering more sophisticated control,
> unless there's more reasons to go live cdcdI'll stick
> with what i got.  So why does the original poster want
> a cdcd
> 
> =====
> 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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