Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:26:32 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Sergey Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Radko Keves <rado@studnet.sk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about ipl.ko Message-ID: <20020821162631.GA38043@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <0ab501c2492d$bc90fe10$0f0010ac@office.tersys.ru> References: <20020816130147.GA39907@studnet.sk> <20020816193854.GC47465@blossom.cjclark.org> <062201c2475f$9f19ab40$0f0010ac@office.tersys.ru> <20020820181519.GA69240@blossom.cjclark.org> <0ab501c2492d$bc90fe10$0f0010ac@office.tersys.ru>
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> Another point - you can upgrade ipfilter stuff without rebooting, > it is useful in situations where minimum downtime is possible. > > PFIL_HOOKS does not add much functionality to the kernel and > I always turn this on on every box. I think you are missing his point though. Some people kldload ipl.ko because they don't want to recompile their kernel. IF they recompile it with PFIL_HOOKS might as well do ipfilter at the same time. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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