Eleanore Boyd wrote:
> On 7/31/2012 4:32 PM, Téssio Fechine wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Reading the 'Setting Up a Network Firewall' section of the documentation, I 
>> could not stop thinking that constructions like those are redundant:
>>
>>
>> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route
>> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/accept_source_route
>>
>> since 'all', as the name implies, already covers every network
 >> interface card in the system. I'm wrong?

> Perhaps you meant to send this to the BLFS support list? LFS does
> nothing with networking or firewalls.

Elly is right about the list, but just to try to close it out, there are 
subtle differences between 'all' and 'default'.  All is for current 
routes and default is for new ones that may be established.  The biggest 
thing to know is that they are different so both need to be set.

   -- Bruce
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