Subject: Re: default values for IPv4
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/12/2002 00:56:46
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:55:17AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > > it seems that the default values for IPv4 operation is rather outdated.
> > > do people mind if I put the values like following into /etc/sysctl.conf?
> > > (or, any suggestions for values?)
> >How about changing the default values in the code?
>
> of course that's another possiblity, but i'm not sure if it is okay to
> do so (given the amount of efforts put into backward compatibility
> in this project).
Okay, so, I'm trying to understand what you're saying here -- and failing
miserably.
What, exactly, does changing these two defaults have to do with "backward
compatibility"?
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud