[165037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WaPo writes about vulnerabilities in Supermicro IPMIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Aug 15 23:43:43 2013
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <650753103856f99b2ad6b2c03e4eb6d7@jonesy.com.au>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Jones" <aj@jonesy.com.au>
> > Well, *I* would firewall eth1 from eth0 and cross-over eth1 to the ILO jack;
> > let the box be the firewall. Sure, it's still as breakable as the box
> > proper, but security-by-obscurity isn't *bad*, it's just *not good
> > enough*.
>
> That's great until you muck up your firewall config or the kernel
> hangs etc. and you're up for a trip to the data centre.
Sure. But if you can reduce 1% to 1% of 1%, then you've still done something
useful.
Cheers,
-- jra
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