I have seen Many cable modems and Gateways (Routers ) running on ecos . There should be some other mechanism ???
Thanks, Ratheesh On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Tarmo Kuuse <tarmo.ku...@mail.ee> wrote: > ratheesh k wrote: >> >> I am a newbie in ecos . I read that there is no netfilter support >> implemented in ecos .Then How is security working in ecos ?? > > This is a very interesting question and I really hope for some authoritative > answers. > > The Open/FreeBSD TCP/IP stacks in eCos are hopelessly out of date (i.e. > vulnerable). It's highly unlikely that servers and clients for Internet > services have been audited or tested with security in mind. Encryption is > not supported, although there is some unofficial port of OpenSSL - does that > even work? Etc. > > I assume eCos to be usable only in trusted networks where security is not > needed. Connecting an eCos device to any public network is not a good idea, > unless this system is so unimportant that remotely crashing or breaking it > does not cause any harm. > > -- > Kind regards, > Tarmo Kuuse > > > -- > Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos > and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss > > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss