[Gllug] iptables replacement for ipchains

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Sun Sep 23 00:39:38 UTC 2007


On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:17:30AM +0100, Paul wrote:
> Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > If /etc/network/options exists, spoof protection, syncookies and ip
> > forwarding will be set when networking starts and will overwrite any
> > sysctl settings.
> 
> This config file is also deprecated, so will not exist on new 
> installations. The settings in it can be transfered to /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
>      [ -e /etc/network/options ] || return 0
>      log_warning_msg "/etc/network/options is deprecated (see 
> README.Debian of netbase)."

Yes, I said that several steps back in the thread.  It doesn't change
the basic point, because it's not the only case where Debian behaves
like that.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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