Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 01:00:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, mburgett@cmnsens.zoom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: com console, and h/w flow control... Message-ID: <2772.867484814@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:14:56 PDT." <XFMail.970628001456.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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> Actually, we are building just such system right now. We ridicule > Slowlaris to no end for their incredible stupidity by having just such a > ``feature''. > > I am SURE I am missing something in this discussion... A good grasp of terminal server security? :-) Seriously, I have to wonder at this whole line of inquiry. Let's forget FreeBSD for a moment and say that I've got the console ports to all my cisco routers wired up to such a terminal server. Can you seriously tell me that I'd be in my right mind to let _anyone_ other than the admin staff be able to log into this particular terminal server, much less know the phone numbers for it? There's a lot you can do if you've got a wired-in connection to the serial console of any ten devices I can name, much less FreeBSD, and you guard that connectivity just as jealously as you guard the physical security of the machine or you expect your life to suck. Jordan
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