Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:04:41 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "James Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com> Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup Message-ID: <132a01c0dfb4$40250850$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0105182211380.1272-100000@oracle> <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>
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> 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
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