Re: Use of single port aggregations to enhance security

I thought *every* operating system follows the rule "apply
packet filtering first, bring interfaces up later" nowdays?

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:12:46AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> So what difference can this make?
> 
> If you're using an operating system based firewall (Linux,
> BSD, Solaris), then depending on the order of the operating
> system enabling firewalls capabilities vs networking, there
> may be windows where packets are able to reach code paths
> that they weren't intended for because nic drivers start
> servicing packets quite early.