Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:29:13 -0400 From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BPF on in 3.3-RC GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990915192913.007b9570@mail.psn.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990915164546.048d0100@localhost>
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At 04:52 PM 9/15/99 -0600, you wrote: >Was doing some testing on the latest release candidate of FreeBSD 3.3, and >noted that the Berkeley Packet Filter was enabled in the GENERIC kernel. Is >this a good idea? See freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG mailing list archives. Recently, there was a rather large argument over whether this should be included or not. The gist of it is that since DHCP has been deemed necessary to be enabled in GENERIC, bpf is also necessary. Please don't start up the thread here, too. Just go read the -security archives. I promise you, this was discussed to DEATH there. :-) --Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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