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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:03:27 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <roman@atlas-design.net>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sniffer
Message-ID:  <19981202200327.C366@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <36657AD5.1F79504B@atlas-design.net>
References:  <36657AD5.1F79504B@atlas-design.net>

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Roman Katsnelson wrote:

> and being that this is a custom kernel on a live and important web
> server I'd rather not have to do that. ;)

You think the GENERIC kernel, with lots of unneeded bloat, is better
than a custom one with only the code you need? I (and most other people
I suspect) would disagree there.

If it's just the fact that you'll have to reboot a live server to load
the new kernel, then I can almost understand that (it really won't take
the machine out of service more than a minute or two though), but if you
keep the old kernel around (which you _always_ should), you can easily
boot from that if the new one doesn't work for any reason.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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