From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 17:31:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1AE37B408 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f920VB076210; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: David Kelly Cc: Edwin Groothuis , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley packet filter In-Reply-To: <200110020013.f920Cxw37586@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Edwin Groothuis writes: > > It would be nice if the above could additionally say, "DHCP needs bpf". > My kernel config is so noted because I have a tendancy to remove bpf on > being scared off by the above note. Every year or so I get bit again > setting up another machine for somebody else... make a note not to remove it :) the fun thing about bpf is that it's one of the handiest devices for diagnosing network problems and other goings on. i really haven't seen a good reason to remove it, even after that warning. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message