Subject: Re: ipfilter loading.
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/29/1997 00:23:21
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:45:22 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Oh. good point.   What are those uses -- are they security-related?
 > Does changing the rule-filter default state break ipfilter for those uses?

...NAT and passive logging come to mind.  Think of cases where the machine
is on a _wide open_ network, just collecting data about what sort
of traffic is on the wire...

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