Re: NAT and netfilter (appology, thanks, and correction)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 08:37:46AM -0600, Thomas Molina wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Set it to "0" for interfaces you'd like source routes to be rejected
> > upon, or just set it under ipv4/conf/all/ to reject them everywhere
> > (this is the default).
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance here (perhaps I should read the source).
> You're saying the settings in all/ override settings in the other
> directories?  If so, why have the other directories if there is an all/
> directory?

So that you can have a default setting and override it on a per-interface
basis.