From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 8:47:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E7E37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 08:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4IFlhh52084; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) (authenticated) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4IFlfm52076; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3B05441D.1471E44D@thehousleys.net> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:47:41 -0400 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup References: <122901c0df96$0ca2faf0$0300a8c0@oracle> <44g0e2ish9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <12e201c0dfb0$1a205aa0$0300a8c0@oracle> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young wrote: > > > > fair enough .... doesn't appear its got any side affects & at > least > > > might help nobble the mindless ones to some extent though. Any > idea why its not > > > in the defailt rc.conf ?? > > > > It is. In fact, it always has been, ever since the variable was > created. > > > ??????????? I've installed FreeBSD form 3.2 to 4.3 & never once seen > that line in any of them .... what gives ?? > Lines 213 & 214 from /etc/defaults/rc.conf from FreeBSD-4.3-RELEASE ### Miscellaneous network options: ### icmp_bmcastecho="NO" # respond to broadcast ping packets /etc/defaults/rc.conf is the "default rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is used to override the defaults specified in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. This was created in FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Life begins at 4.0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message