Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:57:22 -0400 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup Message-ID: <3B054662.ACF0245B@thehousleys.net> References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0105182211380.1272-100000@oracle> <122901c0df96$0ca2faf0$0300a8c0@oracle> <44g0e2ish9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <12e201c0dfb0$1a205aa0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B05441D.1471E44D@thehousleys.net> <130001c0dfb2$762060a0$0300a8c0@oracle>
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Doug Young wrote: > > > 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 ?? Why should it???? On boot the rc script reads the values from /etc/defaults/rc.conf and then reads /etc/rc.conf to override the values of /etc/defaults/rc.conf. There is no need for it to be in /etc/rc.conf, unless you wish to change the value to YES and allow your box to respond to broadcast pings. 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
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