Re: Using sysctl in debian considered harmful?!

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>:
>  Someone has been trying to convice me that advising someone to use
>  sysctl or sysctl.conf to query, or set kernel parameters is dangerous,
>  or unsupported in Debian. In particular, enabling/disabling ip
>  forwarding. I happen to think this is BS.

'Sounds like BS to me too.  Stock Sarge includes:

   net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
   net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

in /etc/sysctl.conf


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