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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 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 03:49:04 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:29:22 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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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