Re: Wild DMA (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

[Niels <niels@holding.pi.net>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:

> To solve the problem, Bruce Perenhs told me to shutdown the Ethernet
> card properly by placing this in /etc/reboot:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> mount -n -o remount,ro /
> 
> echo "Shutting down Ethernet interface eth0"
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
> 
> echo -n "Rebooting... "
> reboot -d -f

New versions of sysvinit (2.70 and up) support a '-i' flag given to
halt/reboot.  It will then configure all interfaces as down.

Also from a security point of view this is a good thing to add, and I hope
the maintainer of the sysvinit package will this make the default for the
reboot/halt scripts (i.e. reboot -d -f -i).


	-- Niels.


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