[rescue] What To Do With An Ultra 60?

[Kevin Loch]

Josh Neal wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:10:12AM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> >
> > In the current world climate, nukes are a really, really bad choice.  Perhaps
> > a 2U thermite solution, _if_ we can co-locate the box in the same rack,
> > preferably above the target.  Hmm, we could detonate the box via SSH...
> 
> Disturbingly, this would actually be a very effective attack. When I last looked at the (documented) topology of the Andover cage in Exodus about six months ago, ALL of the traffic pasted through a SINGLE FreeBSD packet filtering box. I am no fan of the Andover network "engineers".
> 

Which is more dangerous, administrative complexity or physical
uncertainty?  If I were them,
I would put everything through a single FreeBSD firewall *and* have a
fully configured 
cold spare in the rack.  What would you replace that box with?

KL