Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13949; Sat, 24 Feb 96 19:08:01 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20597; Sat, 24 Feb 96 19:07:32 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA08435; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:18:34 -0500 Received: from uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA08200; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:05:04 -0500 Received: from gatekeeper.rhein.de (root@gatekeeper.rhein.de [193.175.27.1]) by uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de (8.7.4-ws4/8.7.1-ws3) with ESMTP id WAA13310; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:04:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from peti.rhein.de (peti.rhein.de [193.175.27.170]) by gatekeeper.rhein.de (8.7.1-ws3/8.7.1-ws3) with ESMTP id WAA12427; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:04:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from simons@localhost) by peti.rhein.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) id WAA07427; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:04:40 +0100 (MET) From: Peter Simons Message-Id: <199602242104.WAA07427@peti.rhein.de> Subject: Re: kern/2121: Default setting of ip.forwarding is not good To: perry@piermont.com Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:04:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602241910.OAA05805@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Feb 24, 96 02:10:41 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG Perry E. Metzger wrote: > I don't really understand why this needs to be strongly documented -- > it is standard behavior on all systems. You overestimate the knowledge of the average computer user. I don't want to experience years of administrating weird machines just to be able to connect my computers to the net using ppp. Please document it somewhere, then the problem is solved. -peter