Grrr... modprobe.conf

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Sep 21 15:03:14 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> said:
> Why on earth would that be critical? The firewall is just a band-aid. If
> it does anything useful, your system was broken (or infected) already.

There are still a number of network daemons that don't have any
practical IP ACL setup.  TCP wrappers only kicks in after the socket is
open, which is often not what you want.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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