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To: Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org>
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	Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup
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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
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