 | | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) What's a halted firewall? Just one that's not working? or something neater? Thanks to all who answered my questions about making old iron into firewalls some time back... I went as far as downloading the "firewall on a floppy" image that (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) close... a firewall, that you told to shut down - so it's not running any processes at all, no programs are running on it... but it still filters and forwards packets. How can you hack a firewall if you can't launch any process on it? :) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Conversely? How can it be filtering and forwarding if there are no processes running? And why wouldn't it shutdown all the way at some point? (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —John D. Forinash
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| | | | (...) It's something of a cheat; the world doesn't tend to consider the kernel to be a process in and of itself, and with stuff like ipchains you can effectively put all the firewall rules and functionality in the kernel. So you still have a kernel (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) Every Linux firewall I've seen is done differently. I have mine all installed on a write-protected floppy (no HD), I re-compiled syslog to use a different config file, hidden away as inconspicuously as possible, and it logs to my main server. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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