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Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:51:53 +1000
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> 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
>

Ahhhhhhh .... now thats a totally different situation

What I meant by :default rc.conf was the one in /etc/rc.conf

The original question remains .... why isn't the anti-smurf line
included in the
/etc/rc.conf file ??


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