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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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