From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 15:44:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1E1151D2 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18652; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:44:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Greg Quinlan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP [Q] In-Reply-To: <00fa01beb400$a1cb2f80$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone explain in relation to routing what: > > accept_sourceforward > enable_sourceforward > > mean? Hm, this isn't on the rc.conf manpage. These control the source routed packet sysctls. Source routed packets allow the originator of the packet to specify the route the packet is to take. In general source routed packets are evil and are most likely spoofed, but they can be useful for debugging. I suggest leaving them disabled. > What are the consequences for NATD? These will not affect any system daemon directly. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message