Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:42:36 +0200 From: Sven Huster <sven.huster@mailsurf.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net>, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010515124103.0264e080@mx01.mailsurf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105142311140.79606-100000@athena.uniserve. ca> References: <20010514230628.N2009@fw.wintelcom.net>
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At 08:14 AM 5/15/01, Tom wrote: >*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > >On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Tom <tom@uniserve.com> [010514 23:02] wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > > > > > How are you preventing unauthorized access via the PM2? I haven't > > > > found any way to prevent it. > > > > > > What do you mean? First of all, you assign a password to the account > > > used for serial port access. Then you assign filters on the ethernet > > > interface to prevent telnet access from anything but known hosts. Then > > > you do the same thing on your gateway router. > > > > Uh.. > > > > Still using telnet over the wild world of the net? > > > > Here's what I do, i use a crossover to a stable barely used machine > > and a serial connection as a backup from another machine. Another > > option is using a modem to dial in directly into the thing. > > It is all the PM2e supports. So if that is what you are using, you need >to use telnet. > > Besides a console server should never really be on the Internet anyway. >In fact, using dial-up access only (PM2e supports dial-back for excellent >dial security) is probably the way to go. i use a cyclades PR3000TS for that. supports ssh and up to 64 ports. starts with 16. regards Sven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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