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

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
02 Jan 2000 18:45:09 +0100


tmolina@home.com (Thomas Molina) writes:

> 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 set policies for individual interfaces too. all/ is just
a shortcut.

-Andi

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