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From Eric.Schenk@dna ...
SubjectRe: martian attack on 2.1.36
DateTue, 13 May 1997 18:34:19 +0200

"Pawel S. Veselov" <vps@beta.niimm.spb.su> writes:
> Hello, David!
>
>On Tue, 13 May 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
>
>>echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_bootp_agent
>
>Why not
> echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_log_martians

Because bootp won't work even if you turn off the announcments
that it generates martians. Turning on ip_bootp_agent allows certain
types of martians (those generated by bootp) to be accepted without
complaint.

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