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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Cillian Sharkey <cillian@BAKER.IE>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Various Questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091641460.1164-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990808131002.1322914C3D@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Cillian  Sharkey wrote:

> when a network interface is put into promiscuous mode, a kernel
> message is logged ie. "ep0: promiscuous mode enabled" are there plans
> to log the reverse of this message ie. "ep0: promiscuous mode
> disabled"..I think this was suggested before in the mailing-lists but
> did anything come of it ?

Not that I saw.  Patches would accelerate the process, probably :-)

> can the code for network interfaces be dynamically loded (by loadable
> kernel modules) when they are needed ? ie. when I run ppp which uses
> the tun0 interface I need to manually "kldload if_tun" as I don't have
> tun support included in my (3.2-STABLE) kernel..

We're getting there.  fxp is now a KLD and I expect more to follow.

> seeing as IPFILTER comes with fbsd now, are there any plans to
> incorporate it into the conf files ie (/etc/rc.firewall, etc..) in
> NetBSD they seem to have support for it (ie. in /etc/rc.conf there is
> a ipfilter=YES|NO ipnat=YES|NO option which use files like
> /etc/ipf.conf and /etc/ipnat.conf) ?

Eh?

> Is the Gnome Display Manager (gdm) supposed to come with GNOME ? I
> installed gnome-1.0.0 but it didn't seem to come with it (not that I
> actually got GNOME to work for me..)

Never used Gnome.

> last question (very trivial): is it possible to change the colour of
> the kernel messages (in i386 ports, FreeBSD seems to use bright white,
> NetBSD uses green and OpenBSD uses white on blue I think)

Not without hacking the kernel printf().

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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