From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 9: 4:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863B837B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 09:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA82385; Sat, 19 May 2001 02:03:30 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <132a01c0dfb4$40250850$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "James Housley" Cc: , "Lowell Gilbert" References: <122901c0df96$0ca2faf0$0300a8c0@oracle> <44g0e2ish9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <12e201c0dfb0$1a205aa0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B05441D.1471E44D@thehousleys.net> <130001c0dfb2$762060a0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B054662.ACF0245B@thehousleys.net> Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:04:41 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 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 > 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. > Ok thanks .... I see where you are coming from. The way I read the Complete FreeBSD it appeared that the anti-smurf line was supposed to be in etc/rc.conf, & since I'd never seen it there I was wondering what was going on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message