6 Aug
2006
6 Aug
'06
7:28 a.m.
Don wrote:
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Exactly. All the *cost* of crossing protection domains
has the implied benefit of *enforcing* those protections.
So, maybe the "wifi server" or "ethernet server" dies and
you lose that *capability* -- but the rest of the system
keeps on ticking.
Even better, you don't lose that functionality, you restart the driver.
So maybe you lose a few packets, or maybe you have to re-establish your
WPA/WEP session to the AP, which shouldn't take all that long. So it's
the equivalent of a network burp. But likely, your applications
(perhaps even ssh sessions) will keep on working, and you don't get owned.