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Re: YAY! Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

  • From: Bruce Williams
  • Date: Tue Sep 23 23:47:52 2008 
using bolt cutters on cables has a certain satisfaction...

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Morrow
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Joe Greco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would suggest a different Step 1.  Instead of killing power, simply
>> isolate the affected machine.  This might be as simple as putting up a
>> firewall rule or two, if it is simply sending outgoing SMTP spam, or
>
> it's probably easiest (depending on the network gear of course) to
> just put the lan port into an isolated VLAN. It's not the 100%
> solution (some badness rm's itself once it loses connectivity to the
> internets) but it'd make things simpler for the client/LEA when they
> need to figure out what happened.
>
> -chris
>
>