[H-GEN] E Smith Hacked

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day Sarah,
thanks for the suggestion, but I do not yet understand a lot of what I do on Red
Hat and E Smith [though I do sometimes see specks of light thru the haze]
I don't think I want to learn more arcane [but just ever so slightly different]
key strokes that will only add to my confusion.

But thank you anyway for the pointer to Drawbridge; it was a well written and
explained web page

I like the idea of the 3 and two NIC's to ssh into it. A direct link like that
is too cool.
Esmith is web paged, so I can access it thru Opera.
But I have to accept that it is no where near a versatile as your way, sigh.

cheers Tony

Sarah Hollings wrote:
> 
>
> I know it seems a big switch to use Free BSD if you're not familiar with
> it.... 

> 
> http://drawbridge.tamu.edu/
> 
> I have it set up with 3 NIC's, the 3rd one only needs to be a fairly
> crappy one as what it does is to provide an ssh interface with a 2nd NIC
> in my desktop admin machine, direct peer-to-peer via a crossover utp
> cable, for administration. The other two interfaces are the "in" and the
> "out": neither can be routed to at all, they just either bridge packets
> transparently across, or drop them. Any cracker can't even see where the
> firewalling is happening, unless they get thru the firewall, into your
> administration machine, and then into the firewall via the 3rd interface.

> Sarah Hollings


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