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- From: ronald@gate.demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo)
- References: <1992Jul24.172258.30400@davidsys.com> <14upkcINN9fb@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Demon Internet Services.
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- Subject: Re: Help: Routing Problem on 386BSD
- Cc: "William F. Jolitz" <wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:54:06 +0000
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- wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) wrote:
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- > By default, BSD system's *DON'T* act as routers, primarily for network
- > security reasons
-
- The reasons are specified in RFC 1122 HOST REQUIREMENTS. Please do NOT
- change the default behaviour. This is REQUIRED. I quote:
-
- [ from RFC 1122 3.1 INTRODUCTION ]
-
- [ ... ] Any host that forwards datagrams generated by another host is
- acting as a gateway and MUST also meet the specifications laid out
- in the gateway requirements RFC [INTRO:2]. An Internet host that
- includes embedded gateway code MUST have a configuration switch to
- disable the gateway function, and this switch MUST default to the
- non-gateway mode. [ ... ]
-
-
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