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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:31:49 -0700
From:      Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tracking -stable remotely/colocated
Message-ID:  <p05100325b77204176ffd@[207.76.207.129]>
In-Reply-To: <20010710202209.A4563@freeway.dcfinc.com>
References:  <200107100227.WAA25392@world.std.com> <200107101450.KAA24607@world.std.com> <200107110138.VAA28255@world.std.com> <20010710202209.A4563@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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At 8:22 PM -0700 7/10/01, Chad R. Larson wrote:
>But one thing I intend to do is cross-wire the serial ports of each
>redundant machine pairs we install and run serial consoles on them.  That
>is, the pair of machines that are performing firewall duty (and database
>duty, and web server duty, and Java servlet container duty...) will be
>able to see each other's consoles on their serial ports.  That way, I
>should be able to re-boot (and debug) the offline guy via the online
>machine.

Just something to think about...if one of your firewall systems gets 
compromised, the perpetrators will then have console access to your 
other firewall system.


Mark

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