[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Cory Smelosky]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Andrew Jones wrote:

> On 02/17/2014 11:15 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> On February 17, 2014 4:20:17 AM EST, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, it actually runs Vyatta, which replaces some portion of the
>> normal Linux networking with its own.  I'm not sure how deeply the
>> changes go.  Iptables are gone though.
>
> As far as I know, Vyatta is a totally standard kernel running an IOS-like UI 
> to configure totally standard Linux things.
>
> It would not surprise me if they removed /usr/bin/iptables just to stop you 
> from fiddling with it by accident.

I love when products do things like that.  It reminds me of NexentaStor 
with its limited CLI.  I broke out of their restricted shell by starting a subshell from Vi...

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