Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:00:46 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.conf Message-ID: <199809240200.XAA05951@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199809232147.WAA15421@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Sep 23, 98 10:47:17 pm"
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#define quoting(Brian Somers) // > jkh 1998/09/22 21:42:03 PDT // > // > Modified files: // > etc rc.conf // > Log: // > I'm not sure how/when router_enable got set to YES, but it doesn't // > seem right to me. // > Noticed by: jkb // > // > Revision Changes Path // > 1.59 +2 -2 src/etc/rc.conf // // It's been like that for eternity - // // <hysterical mode on> // : # $Id: sysconfig,v 1.1 1995/03/21 15:20:48 jkh Exp $ // : [.....] // : # These are the flags you'd like to start the routing daemon with // : routedflags=-q IIRC, routed has been enable since the beginning to be used only as a client, for router discovery. That explains the -q as default. This way, an out-of-the-box system would work, even with no static default router or with changing routers. Unix idea of PnP. :) Also, there is a RFC which states that a system cannot be an internet router (gateway) OOTB, to avoid problems. I'm not sure if it's already obsolete, though. I still remember when we had to compile a new kernel to enable gateway options, before we had the sysctl for that. And that's not a long time ago. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct."
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