Re: halted system still working as router.

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:26:07 -0500 (EST)


Redhat should turn off forwarding as part of it's shutdown. If you are not
running Redhat or you turn on forwarding through a non-standard method
(i.e. not through linuxconf) then this is indeed normal, as the shutdown
only stops userspace.

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Paul wrote:

> I was told to post this here, so here goes.
>
> -P133 32meg RAM
> -kernel 2.0.35
> -ip masqs between the internet and my internal network.
>
> The power in my apartment went out and my ups was about to fail. I
> typed "shutdown -h now" <enter>. The machine shutdown and halted. It
> said, The system is halted, and System Halted. My ups never did die.
> The curious thing was that when the power came back on I found that my
> computer was still routing traffic to the internet. Is this normal
> behaviors for a computer that has been halted? Is this a kernel
> problem, or specific to my machine(or my kernel)?
>
>
> --
> --Paul
> Linux: For IQs higher than 95 or 98 !
>
> Def'n LILO(li-lo) n The most dangerous virus known to Microsoft.
>
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