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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:54:13 +0100
From:      Boris Staeblow <balu@dva.in-berlin.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf?
Message-ID:  <20000105005413.A95924@dva.in-berlin.de>

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Gerhard Sittig wrote:


>No.  One principle of routing packets between interfaces is that
>this should never happen by default but instead ALWAYS demands an
>admin to conciously activate this feature.  That's what the RFC
>says about "requirements for networked computers" (don't have the
>number at hand).  So if you happen to boot a kernel with bridging
>support compiled in, it still should be your explicit decision to
>forward packets to a different interface.

Agree.

But there´s no possibility to configure exactly this directly
in /etc/rc.conf.
The alternate is to create a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

Boris
  



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