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Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Thu May 23 18:38:36 2002 
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
> Everything that you say one can do from a CDROM, one can do from
> flash.  CDROM technology gains you nothing.

Depends on what flash you use. There's no way to write protect 
compactflash. CDROM technology gains you security in the case where m4d 
h4x0r roots your router and tries to stomp all over the system files.

The lack of moving parts is attractive though, but since you only use the 
cdrom occasionally, I suspect you wont gain much in MTBF.

-Dan
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