Ubuntu
procps package

  1. Bug #55850
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 55850

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote :

bluefox@icebox:~$ dpkg -S /etc/sysctl.conf
procps: /etc/sysctl.conf

procps, methinks. The target is some time after Edgy, and apparently the spec is now networking-security-sysctls.

'net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects=0' has been disputed; the perceived problem seems to be that some bad infrastructure (two routers plugged into a switch hosting a network segment) will suffer excessive network traffic between the routers without redirects; and the threat of spoofing redirects (READ: NO AUTHENTICATION HERE) is outweighed by the threat of Ubuntu causing extra traffic because network administrators don't know how to enable this feature.