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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!demon!gate.demon.co.uk!ronald Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: ronald@gate.demon.co.uk (Ronald Khoo) References: <1992Jul24.172258.30400@davidsys.com> <14upkcINN9fb@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) Subject: Re: Help: Routing Problem on 386BSD Cc: "William F. Jolitz" <wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:54:06 +0000 Message-ID: <9207291645.aa11822@gate.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk Lines: 22 wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) wrote: > 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. [ ... ] -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@demon.co.uk> <ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk> <ronald@robobar.co.uk> BTNet: +44 71 229 7741 | Brambles are the order of the day.