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RE: More BCP: revenge of RS232 and CLIs

I'd agree with that, although, I'm not sure how much of a mistake
it was to list RS-232 specifically.  I agree the generalization is
probably better, but, the example should still probably specify that
this is the most prevalant and compatible mechanism available at the
time of writing.

Owen


--On Saturday, October 25, 2003 9:13 AM -0400 George Jones <gmj@pobox.com>
wrote:

i fail to see how the baud rate, parity, color of cable, ...
affect security.  can we please get some focus here?


The security issue is the need for a guarenteed-to-work path
for config and management, even if the net, interfaces, routing
and OS are screwed up.  The BCP implementation would appear
to be RS232 with a well understood set of default prameters.
I think I made a mistake by listing the technology (RS232)
in the requirement instead of generalizing and putting it
in the example.  Will cahnge.

---George