What is the modern "Floppy-Based" router based on?

[Jack]

--- sirsky wrote:

> 
> Another possible solution is to simply run the
> firewall in a 'halted' state.
> 
> I'll explain.  Basically when you halt the machine,
> everything shuts
> down, all userspace programs are killed, all
> filesystems are unmounted
> (and unmountable), modules unloaded, etc
 and you're
> left with a
> machine that's dead to the world, and a message that
> tells you that
> you can turn off the PC.
> 
I always forget about that option, but wouldn't you
want at least one other process running other than 
networking and iptables? I like to get reports from
time to time of attempted break-ins. Since the drives
are not mounted there would need to be a way to gather
this information and report it somewhere, like via
email or writing to a remote drive? Perhaps even a
CD? Writing to a remote CD might get a bit costly
under heavy fire, but nmight be attractive for a
commercial server.

Also, I notice that Symantic took such a beating on 
their "IE is safer than Firefox" article they've 
revisited that analysis and say well were probably 
were kinda well .. you know ... wrong about that. 
Sorta. Somewhat. 
Who would of ever thought it? ;')

Brian JD