Subject: Re: Migrating from FreeBSD to NetBSD: general questions
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/25/2005 13:12:58
In message <78a2305a05052509541e8fb153@mail.gmail.com>, Andy Ruhl writes:
>I'm still working on this migration thing for my server. I've started
>to get a few things up and running, but I have some general questions:
>
>1. FreeBSD's inetd (I know I know, shouldn't use it blah blah :) is
>able to decide which address it's going to listen on. This was handy
>because I find it convenient to use it on my internal network, but of
>course I don't want it listening on my external network. Is there some
>nice way to achieve this for NetBSD, other than writing a rule to
>block things that the inetd will listen for? I suppose I could use
>wrappers too...

You can list IP addresses on a per-service basis in inetd.conf.
>
>3. Is there a way to turn on and off multi cpu support without a
>recompile? Probably a stupid question... I may be moving this NetBSD
>install to a multi cpu machine at some point.
>
I don't think there is any way.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb