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Is the firewall on the ReadyNAS far below acceptable level?
Hi All, I'm installing a ReadyNAS Pro 6, that will have "some" connections to the outside world. Given that this essentially is a Linux box, and SSH-access is possible, i figured it had some decent...
That is in fact a maintenance nightmare, our internal name for such systems is "babysitter systems". This means that with an update you either run the risk of
chirpa wrote: If the kernel version changes in a new firmware release, you would have to rebuild the modules. So if you have some boot scripts running for these rules, you would probably want some error catching to notify you if they fail.
- lock you out because the firewall blocks doesn't accept the MACs, Limits and ESTABLISHED rules
- disble the firewall (a good thing).
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