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Date:      Sun, 07 Apr 1996 20:17:59 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? 
Message-ID:  <199604080017.UAA02363@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:44:48 -0000." <6550.828917088@critter.tfs.com> 

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> 
> I'm open to input on this, I just left it on as default to make sure there
> would be a discussion :-)

I think it should be defaulted to 'off' in the kernel, and then
optionally enabled AT THE END of /etc/rc* once all of the daemons have
been started up.  As it is now, much of the kernel message buffers are
filled up with these messages before syslogd gets a chance to start
up, and you loose a bunch of the autoconfig messages at boot time.

It might also be interesting to have a few tunable options to enable the
messages based on these other sysctl variable defined port ranges:

	net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 1024
	net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 5000
	net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 40000
	net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 44999

That is, only for ports below net.inet.ip.portrange.first for "well
known" services.  Or a bit mask.. Or maybe something like the routing
protocol socket that gets sent messages, and an intelligent daemon
which implements logging policy..  Just some other ideas.

louie




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