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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:40:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <199810161640.MAA22271@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810160924190.23469-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <199810160130.SAA03659@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810160924190.23469-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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<<On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:25:44 -0700 (PDT), Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> said:

> Curious question:  Why isn't pbf a default?  Security concerns?  

Just ask anyone with a big network of Linux machines why this is a bad
idea...

> It'd make it much easier for building DHCP-out-of-boxen with it in
> there.

The fact that DHCP requires BPF represents a bug in the network stack
which we will hopefully be able to fix.

-GAWollman

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