Firewalls: Re: Tripwire [was: Re: NNTP as a trusted service]

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Subject:	Re: Tripwire [was: Re: NNTP as a trusted service]
From:	"Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921 @ mcimail . com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 94 11:29 EST
To:	Ken Hardy <ken @ bridge . com>
To:	firewalls <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>

On Jun 17, Ken Hardy said:

>Say I'm using I PC-based Unix system for a firewall.  If I left a
>floppy in the drive (only 1 A: drive) and the system rebooted, it would
>try to boot off of the floppy and fail, instead of rebooting Unix and
>being automatically available again.

On many PC platforms, you can disable diskette boot in the BIOS.  When you
do this, you normally have to do some keyboard intervention, like a <cntl-F>
during boot to override the setting.

Bob Moskowitz

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