On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
Hi,
archlinux.org claims "If you never customized /etc/sysctl.conf, you have nothing to do", while archlinux.de's claim is that only those settings
"# Protection from the SYN flood attack. net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 # Disable packet forwarding. net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 0"
were used by a /etc/sysctl.conf that never was customized.
I never customized the /etc/sysctl.conf on my machine, but it contains other enabled entries too.
$ grep -v "#" /etc/sysctl.conf.pacsave net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 0 kernel.sysrq = 0 vm.swappiness = 10 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
This is confusing.
Regards, Ralf
They are right. Something must have altered your sysctl.conf.