Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:29:22 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network rc.conf src/sys/netinet ip_icmp.c src/lib/libc/gen sysctl.3 Message-ID: <199809152129.OAA08611@mango.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:49:04 PDT." <199809151049.DAA25879@freefall.freebsd.org>
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I think this should be split and bcastecho should default to off and mcastecho should default to on. It's generally harder to forge the source address with multicast so SMURF-like attacks don't really work, and pinging multicast addresses is an extremely useful debugging tool. I'm sorry I missed the discussion (I've been way too snowed under to read the mailing lists recently). Bill
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