Originally submitted by: Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com>
Allow a ppp startup option in rc.conf.
Adjust sysinstall so that it appends to the end of ppp.conf
and uses the generated profile to start ppp in auto mode on
boot.
Submitted by: Josef L. Karthauser <joe@uk.FreeBSD.org>
get a list of interfaces, and then automatically configure them if
${ifconfig_${ifn}} or /etc/start_if.${ifn} exists.
This makes it a lot easier to deal with machines that constantly change
their network configuration as you can leave ifconfig settings for all
the possible cards - just the ones that are present will be configured.
and set it to "/etc/pccard.conf.sample" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Perhaps this default value can be inappropriate,
but I set to this value for the convenience of PC-card boot.flp users.
Please correct it if there are better solutions.
Do discard standard output from the sysctl for approxy_all, and echo
what this sysctl is doing in the usual way. This fix is probably
backwards. We should probably just use the standard sysctl output
in all cases (it needs to have a newline filtered out).
Echo what the sysctls for nfs_reserved_port_only and nfs_access_cache
are doing.
default.
Despite their name it doesn't keep TCP sessions alive, it kills
them if the other end has gone AWOL. This happens a lot with
clients which use NAT, dynamic IP assignment or which has a 2^32
* 10^-3 seconds upper bound on their uptime.
There is no detectable increase in network trafic because of this:
two minimal TCP packets every two hours for a live TCP connection.
Many servers already enable keepalives themselves.
The host requirements RFC is 10 years old, and doesn't know about
the loosing clients of todays InterNet.
log_in_vain:
log_in_vain turns on logging for packets to ports for which
there is no listener.
rc.sysctl:
A generic way to set sysctl values. It reads /etc/syslog.conf
and sets values based on that. No /etc/syslog.conf has been
checked in yet, and I've not added this to the makefile yet
until I get more feedback.
Reviewed by: -current, -hackers and bde especially
suitable defaults pointing to the FreeBSD-shipped versions. This will allow
for easier integration of third-party replacements for these daemons.
Reviewed by: Several members of -committers
normal ifconfig stuff, one might need to pass down authentication
parameters for them.
This is closely tied to Hellmuth's impending rc patches for ISDN, but
sppp can also be used separately (thus it doesn't go directly into the
planned ISDN section of rc.conf).
Reviewed by: hm
addresses by default.
Add a knob "icmp_bmcastecho" to "rc.network" to allow this
behaviour to be controlled from "rc.conf".
Document the controlling sysctl variable "net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho"
in sysctl(3).
Reviewed by: dg, jkh
Reminded on -hackers by: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>
variable "stash_flag" is set. A few lines later, it is evaluated
as "stash_flags" with a trailing "s", and then a bit later the
singular version is unset.
PR: 7609
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Walt Howard <howard@ee.utah.edu>
the rc.conf variable ``natd_interface''. rc.network will
determine whether it is an IP address or an interface name,
and invoke natd with the -a or -n flag as appropriate.
PR: 6947
Reviewed by: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
against the "master map" to get the list of mount point/amd map
correspondences, and using that list as command-line arguments to start
amd.
When I tried to do this with the existing /etc/rc* scripts, I found that
I couldn't do this by modifying only /etc/rc.conf: that file gets
sourced very early by /etc/rc, well before any networking functionality
is present, let alone NIS. Further, I wasn't able to figure out a way
to use various levels & types of quoting to defer evaluation of the
string to a point subsequent to NIS initialization.
As a result, I resorted to hacking /etc/rc.network -- but I did it in a
way that ought to be reasonably general, and avoid breakage for anyone
else.
PR: 6387
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
