[geeks] wild article

[Rob]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:12:09PM -0500, Rob wrote:
> > While an interesting idea, the first problem that springs to mind is that
> > once you now need to do maintenance, change a rule, etc., you have to
> > bounce the box causing 2 minutes of network downtime. Not good IMHO.
>
> I wonder how hard it would be to modify the kernel so that a keystroke on
> the console remounts a FS to load new rules...

This would be interesting. I would also add serial printer support for
hard copy logging since you wouldn't have to have a mounted file system to
hold the logs then.

> There was a team that modded orbit into the kernel.  It would have required
> a lot of work to be useable (like, it completely lacked security while
> allowing remote machines to make system calls to your box), but that certainly
> was a cool hack.  But, the project seemed dead when I found it, and that was
> years ago.

What is the status of Orbit?

- Rob