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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.periphs,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Terminal Servers?
Summary: and what about security
Message-ID: <280@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 88 03:27:52 GMT
References: <147@iquery.UUCP> <12380@cup.portal.com> <689@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <Dec.14.10.40.26.1988.112@ron.rutgers.edu> <442@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
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In article <442@maxim.ERBE.SE> prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes:
rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>> Both Bridge and Cisco terminal servers will boot either from themselves
>> (Bridge uses a floppy, cisco uses roms (look ma! no moving parts) or over
>> the network.
>
>The Annex terminal servers will boot over the network from either a computer
>or from another Annex.

and what about the security implications when these devices reboot over the
network?  What keeps some charlatan from providing an "improved" set of
definitions which destroys any secuity constraints which you have carefully
provided?  Forcing a device to reboot is frequently the easiest threat to
execute.