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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:38:32 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: So, AGAIN, why was tcpdump moved?
Message-ID:  <20000331023831.A370@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com>
References:  <200003310828.AAA02707@windsor.research.att.com>

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On Friday, March 31, 2000, Bill Fenner wrote:
> It didn't occur to me that this would change where tcpdump lived
> (i.e.  it seemed like libcrypto was part of FreeBSD) so it wasn't an
> explicit choice on my part to move distributions.  I agree that's a bad
> side effect.  It's easy to disable the decrypting-ESP feature if the
> disadvantage of having it is greater than the advantage.

   Well, I believe the disadvantage greatly outweighs the
advantage in this situation.  On one hand you have a tcpdump that
can decrypt ESP and on the other you have systems that don't have
tcpdump because they didn't install crypto.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Managing programmers is like herding cats.
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