On Jun 07, Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It is documented in README.Debian that the radvd initscript will
> enable forwarding;
Documenting a bad behaviour does not make it better.

> Since there is *no* *way* that radvd can work without enabling
> forwarding, I think it makes sense to do this in the initscript; what
> would you do instead?
Again, please do *not* enable forwarding in your package.
People installing a *router* are supposed to know that it has to be
enabled, it has been needed on Linux systems since day one. It should
not be unconditionally enabled by default on all interfaces because it
may not be appropriate to enable it on some of them, and then there
would be no easy way to disable it where needed.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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