(build time option to ./configure that is)
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Michael Marineau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Lennart Poettering > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, 15.05.15 12:42, Michael Marineau ([email protected]) wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Lennart Poettering >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On Fri, 15.05.15 12:08, Nick Owens ([email protected]) wrote: >>> > >>> >> In 5a8bcb674f71a20e95df55319b34c556638378ce, IPForwarding was introduced >>> >> to set forwarding flags on interfaces in .network files. networkd sets >>> >> forwarding options regardless of the previous setting, even if it was >>> >> set by e.g. sysctl. This commit makes IPForwarding not change forwarding >>> >> settings, so that systems using sysctl continue to work even if >>> >> IPForwarding is unset in their .network files. >>> >> >>> >> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89509 for the initial >>> >> bug report. >>> > >>> > I think there should be an explicit way to enable the "kernel default >>> > mode", i.e. the parser for this one option should consider a special >>> > value "kernel" or so to explicitly ask for the kernel default. >>> > >>> > I'd still prefer if we'd default to ip forwarding off, rather than ip >>> > forwarding as kernel default, for security reasons. >>> >>> Well, in CoreOS we *have* to use the kernel default if the value is >>> unset, there simply is no way to safely upgrade existing systems to >>> the new configuration scheme from the old sysctl one. The semantics of >>> the two are too different. Even if there was a reasonable translation >>> we are not in the business of modifying user configs. >> >> Well, but I think I would prefer if upstream would default to "off", >> even if coreos then deviates from that and defaults to "kernel"... > > Fair enough, should it be a option to configure then? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
