Re: prevent rwhod broadcast on external interface

[Alois Treindl <alois@xxxxxxxx>]

Horms wrote:

> > If I use iptables to prevent these broadcasts to go out on eth1, then 
> > rwhod is unhappy and creates another syslog entry every 3 minutes:
> > rwhod[4124]: sendto(xxx.255): Operation not permitted
>
> Strange. Perhaps using a DROP rather than a REJECT might help.
I use DROP.

> You could fix rwhod so you can control where it sends its packets out.
I think I will just do that.

Recently, I fixed Apache httpd 2.0 too, for my special purposes (It 
would write access log entries no longer in temporal order, unpatched, 
contrary to httpd 1.3.x)
Alois