From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Feb 9 6: 6:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4822637B41F for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 06:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 577C616B13 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:06:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A12367FA013C; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 15:24:35 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020209080221.057c9ec0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:06:41 -0600 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks In-Reply-To: <200202091216.g19CGk874726@lurza.secnetix.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software >issue is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices >you can boot from. Is booting from a USB device planned? For diskless routers, we had the idea of using one of the USB "key fob" devices as emergency boot device. The OS and ipfilter + rules would be on CF, and if that every got compromised, plug in the CF-in-a-key-fob device to the USB port and re-boot. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message