[48228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat May 25 02:55:25 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 18:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0205232132210.30086-100000@www.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> SJS> a basic question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices
> SJS> I've used are more traditional drives.
>
> Why not partition wisely, then mount the desired partition as
> read-only? Or I guess one _could_ mount each partition as RO...
>
> But why?
The box I want to build is passing packets between the rest of my network
(and the public Internet) and one server that will hold sensitive data.
It'll be a Linux box with the TCP/IP stack running in bridged mode, with
two ethernet adapters installed. The box just needs to boot up and run. It
doesn't need to log anything.
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