[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Jun 07, Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It is documented in README.Debian that the radvd initscript will >> enable forwarding; > Documenting a bad behaviour does not make it better. > >> Since there is *no* *way* that radvd can work without enabling >> forwarding, I think it makes sense to do this in the initscript; what >> would you do instead? > Again, please do *not* enable forwarding in your package. > People installing a *router* are supposed to know that it has to be > enabled, it has been needed on Linux systems since day one. It should > not be unconditionally enabled by default on all interfaces because it > may not be appropriate to enable it on some of them, and then there > would be no easy way to disable it where needed. > Hmm, how about shipping with a /etc/default/radvd file which has a setting "ENABLE_FORWARDING" which defaults to "no"?
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