[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/3/2011 9:27 PM, Howard S Shubs wrote:
> In article
> <a9387ec9-478d-4af3-b3f9-f868143769e2 at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
>   Neil Rieck<n.rieck at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> 1) According to Oracle, Solaris is not fully protected from attack
>> until it is fully booted (really? I was led to believe that security
>> was built into UNIX). For this reason, Solaris-11 has been modified so
>> that the network remains disconnected until booting has finished.
>
> Bringing the network up is part of booting, so the statement makes no
> sense.
>

Not quite!  Bringing up the network is usually done fairly late in the 
start up.  The exception is booting over the network.  If you are NOT
doing a network boot, you need not start the network at all!

I'll be the first to admit that most systems ARE networked these days 
but most is not the same as "all"!