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- From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Help: Routing Problem on 386BSD
- Date: 26 Jul 1992 18:07:08 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- Message-ID: <14upkcINN9fb@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Jul24.172258.30400@davidsys.com>
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- Oops, you've spotted another 0.1 oversight. By default, BSD system's
- *DON'T* act as routers, primarily for network security reasons (it's
- unwise for people to unknowingly have routers that can be exploited ..
- enough said on this, ask your site/network manager about details if
- this is still obtuse).
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- To enable, define GATEWAY as an option and recompile. This was to be
- (will be in future versions) a compiled in, binary configurable option.
- Sorry. This little items are why the release number is pegged at "0" !
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- Bill.
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