From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 12:01:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A97A37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B428343F3F for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6OJ1lju085853; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6OJ1lvO085852; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:01:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Steve Kargl Message-ID: <20030724190147.GD85582@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030719171138.GA86442@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030721202314.GC21068@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030722151138.GB72888@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030722153056.GM863@starjuice.net> <20030723002531.GA44452@kokeb.ambesa.net> <20030723035006.GA45410@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030723035006.GA45410@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:01:49 -0000 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > Don't you need a network connection to use /rescue/rrestore to access > the dump of / on a tape drive in a remote system? rrestore & rcp are clients in this usage -- what is the firewall protecting when using them in single user? > One may want a secure connection to that remote system. IPFW doesnot offer security connections -- that is what SSH does. So I don't see the need of IPFW in this example. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)