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On Sunday 25 February 2007 19:58, Grant wrote: |
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> It occurred to me that if the shorewall firewall on my headless router |
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> doesn't start for whatever reason, I'll be totally exposed. Is there |
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> a way to protect against that? |
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Well, you'll get an error during boot that iptables did not come up. I assume |
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that shorewall is only run when you change the script and |
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otherwise /etc/init.d/iptables is run as a default service after boot. |
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Anyway, a closed port remains closed whether a firewall is running, or not. |
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An open port is hopefully protected by decently strong passwds/authentication |
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mechanisms. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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