Re: rwhod

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Hamish Moffatt writes:
> On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I just discovered rwhod, ruptime, rusers, etc, in the netstd package.
> > 
> > Is there any reason why rwhod is not run in the /etc/init.d/netstd_misc
> > script? (I see it's commented out.) Security concerns, etc?
> 
> Well, I enabled it and it kept my (diald-controlled) PPP link up
> for about seven hours the next night. :-( diald appears to be configured
> correctly to ignore rwhod traffic, too. I presume it was rwhod's
> fault, because that's all I changed and it hasn't done it again since.

rwhod distributes it's information on _every_ interface which is
broadcastable.  This includes loopback and eth0, and also sl0 and I
suppose ppp0, too.  So if you run rwhod you should start it before
your link is up and before it notices that there are some more
broadcastable interfaces

Regards

	Joey

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