Re: [Sheflug] Re: Silicon Graphics (Iris?) / Smoothwall

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Thursday 26 July 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote:
 
> Great for designing space shuttle tiles and for molecular modelling :)  
> However, they are rife with security holes.  So, don't plug it directly
> into the net.

Errrr, how do you come to that conclusion? Most security holes are buffer 
overrun based so you would need to be fluent in both IRIX and MIPS assembly. 
I've never met anyone who knows MIPS assembly.

> You'd be much better off with IPtables or IPchains.  If you want an SuSE
> installation I can tell you how to do it.  Or Debian as well.

Or even OpenBSD.

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