From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 16:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A0214BE9 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05903; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Various Questions In-Reply-To: <19990808131002.1322914C3D@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message