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Subject:	Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:51:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes: > 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? 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?

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) 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? :) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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