On Sunday 09 May 2004 07:20, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > I had thought that the zero configuration functions only set an IP > address if the interface did not have one already assigned. Why > keep a route for something the system should never use once it is > configured for the network? That seems to be the practice in the Windows world and I must admit that the RH implementation seems odd to me too in this respect. > > Do they discuss the potential security implications in the RFCs? I > guess I need to go read them to find out. I've not seen any discussions of this but it is my own practice to disable this "feature" whenever I install RH Linux. Regards, Mike Klinke
