Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:40:19 -0600 (CST) From: James Walker <walker@truman.rsoc.rockwell.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a gateway Message-ID: <199511201540.JAA08970@truman.rsoc.rockwell.com> In-Reply-To: <199511180843.JAA20171@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 18, 95 09:43:18 am
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> > As Joe Greco wrote: > > > options GATEWAY used to increase certain kernel resources as well as > > enabling IP forwarding. If this is still the case - I would say that the > > sysctl method is much less preferable. > > As you said: ``It used to...'' It doesn't do it any more, David > Greenman has been incresing these sizes unconditionally to the GATEWAY > values long before. > > People should expect options GATEWAY to disappear some day. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Being tasked with building a TIS-based firewall on this OS, my concern is the ability to "remove" the ip-forwarding code _completely_ from the kernel. Though the sysctl interface is great, the ability to specify a config OPTION to include or exclude this code is a big win for me. So, this behavior is no longer possible? -- James Walker walker@truman.rsoc.rockwell.com
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