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Subject:	Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:20:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes: > > > heh, nope - it doesn't even log to itself, nor does it run _any_ services > > (other than mgetty on the serial :). Maybe I should make it into a halted > > firewall, the idea is too cool. > > What's a halted firewall? Just one that's not working? or something neater? 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? :)

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) 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
(...) 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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