Re: kernel for 1.2
In your email to me, Christoph Lameter, you wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> ian >Bruce writes:
> ian >> IP forwarding is already a run-time parameter. It automaticaly starts
> ian >> working when you have two IP interfaces.
> ian >
> ian >However, according to RFC1122 (Host Requirements, Communication
> ian >Layers), the IP forwarding code MUST be disabled by default. See the
> ian >extracts below.
> ian >
> ian >It is OK for it to be compiled in, but there MUST be a separate switch
> ian >to turn it on. Having IP forwarding automatically enabled when
> ian >multiple interfaces are configured is NOT acceptable. See in
> ian >particular the sentence:
> ian >
> ian > The host software MUST NOT automatically move into gateway
> ian > mode if the host has more than one interface, [...]
>
> The current setup does require the user to manually setup the second
> interface (in /etc/init.d/network). There is no way to automatically
> configure a secondary network card to my knowledge.
>
> Thus it requires user intervention to enable forwarding.
Install mgetty. Dial in with a win95 client. BLAM! ppp0 interface
is configured *without intervention*....
Tim
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