Package: netbase Version: 4.29 Followup-For: Bug #330830
Seeing the warning in the boot screen, I decided to verify what had to be changed. I tried to convert the /etc/network/options file to /etc/sysctl.conf entries following the documentation. Doing this I found 2 bugs... 1) The documentation in README.Debian shows: --- ip_forward=yes: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 --- but in /etc/sysctl.conf I read: --- # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 #net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1 # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6 #net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1 --- So which is the equivalent entry? Both ipv4 and ipv6 or only one? And what parameter: "net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding" or "net.ipv4.ip_forward"? The same is for "spoofprotect", but here there are 2 entries in the documentation and only 1 in sysctl.conf. 2) My options were not correctly converted: all the lines in /etc/sysctl.conf were commented out. Why not uncomment the relevant ones so that the previous configuration is recreated? Anyway bug 2) is not a real trouble, I'll just uncomment the right lines and then I'll remove the deprecated file, but please correct the infos for bug 1) because I really do not know what variables I need! My old /etc/network/options is: --- ip_forward=no spoofprotect=yes syncookies=no --- Thank you and kind regards, Alessandro Garberi -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages netbase depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw ii iputils-ping [ping] 3:20020927-6 Tools to test the reachability of ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superse 0.20050402-5 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver netbase recommends no packages. -- debconf information: netbase/upgrade-note/etc-network-interfaces-pre-3.17-1: netbase/upgrade-note/init.d-split-pre-3.16-1: netbase/upgrade-note/radius-ports-pre-3.05: netbase/upgrade-note/portmap-restart-pre-3.11-2: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
