Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: A couple "normal user" questions.. | Date | Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:13:17 +0000 (GMT) |
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> ip_forwarding is turned 'off' as default.. if you configure in 'IP_FORWARDING', > shouldn't this probably be turned 'on' as default?
IP_FORWARDING the define is gone in my current patches. It should also default to off (RFC1122)
> /proc/config > This would be simply the .config that was used in compilation of the kernel. > I'm sure a lot of people have kernels lying around and they don't know what > they compiled into it, and didn't keep the related .config around either. The > reason I think it should be a /proc option is that it would be an easy reminder > and a small portion of code.
I don't want 8K of my kernel wasted because I can't remember to save config files. For vendors they can ship configs with the kernel. One thing slackware did get right is providing config and System.map files for the default kernels
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